How To Install ipmievd on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipmievd on Rocky Linux 8. ipmievd is IPMI event daemon for sending events to syslog

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipmievd on Rocky Linux 8.

What is ipmievd

ipmievd is a daemon which will listen for events from the BMC that are being sent to the SEL and also log those messages to syslog.

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

Install ipmievd 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 ipmievd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipmievd

Install ipmievd 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 ipmievd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipmievd

How To Uninstall ipmievd on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ipmievd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ipmievd

ipmievd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/sysconfig/ipmievd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/f854cb2699c6dd50c58f9a367505be5fb07b8b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipmievd.service
/usr/sbin/ipmievd
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmievd.8.gz

References

Summary

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