How To Install ifstat on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat
on CentOS 7.
What is ifstat
ifstat(1) is a little tool to report interface activity like vmstat/iostat do. In addition, ifstat can poll remote hosts through SNMP if you have the ucd-snmp library. It will also be used for localhost if no other known method works (You need to have snmpd running for this though).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ifstat
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ifstat.
Install ifstat on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ifstat
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ifstat 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.
After updating yum database, We can install ifstat
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ifstat on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ifstat
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.