How To Install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 7.
What is fusioninventory-agent
FusionInventory Agent is an application designed to help a network or system administrator to keep track of the hardware and software configurations of computers that are installed on the network. This agent can send information about the computer to a OCS Inventory NG or GLPI server with the FusionInventory for GLPI plugin. You can add additional packages for optional tasks * fusioninventory-agent-task-network Network Discovery and Inventory support * fusioninventory-agent-inventory Local inventory support for FusionInventory * fusioninventory-agent-task-deploy Software deployment support * fusioninventory-agent-task-esx vCenter/ESX/ESXi remote inventory * fusioninventory-agent-task-collect Custom information retrieval support * fusioninventory-agent-task-wakeonlan not included due to a licensing issue for perl-Net-Write
We can use yum or dnf to install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fusioninventory-agent.
Install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fusioninventory-agent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fusioninventory-agent
Install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install fusioninventory-agent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fusioninventory-agent
How To Uninstall fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the fusioninventory-agent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fusioninventory-agent
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.