How To Install fusioninventory-agent on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent on Rocky Linux 8. fusioninventory-agent is FusionInventory agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Wake o lan task

We can use yum or dnf to install fusioninventory-agent on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fusioninventory-agent.

Install fusioninventory-agent on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fusioninventory-agent using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fusioninventory-agent

Install fusioninventory-agent on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fusioninventory-agent using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fusioninventory-agent

How To Uninstall fusioninventory-agent on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fusioninventory-agent package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fusioninventory-agent

fusioninventory-agent Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/fusioninventory
/etc/fusioninventory/agent.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/conf.d
/etc/fusioninventory/inventory-server-plugin.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/proxy-server-plugin.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/proxy2-server-plugin.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/server-test-plugin.cfg
/etc/fusioninventory/ssl-server-plugin.cfg
/etc/systemd/system/fusioninventory-agent.service.d
/usr/bin/fusioninventory-agent
/usr/bin/fusioninventory-injector
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fusioninventory-agent.service
/usr/share/fusioninventory
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/Task
/usr/share/man/man1/fusioninventory-agent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fusioninventory-injector.1.gz
/var/lib/fusioninventory-agent

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.