How To Install ipmiutil on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipmiutil on CentOS 7.
What is ipmiutil
The ipmiutil package provides easy-to-use utilities to view the SEL, perform an IPMI chassis reset, set up the IPMI LAN and Platform Event Filter entries to allow SNMP alerts, Serial-Over-LAN console, event daemon, and other IPMI tasks. These can be invoked with the metacommand ipmiutil, or via subcommand shortcuts as well. IPMIUTIL can also write sensor thresholds, FRU asset tags, and has a full IPMI configuration save/restore. An IPMI driver can be provided by either the OpenIPMI driver (/dev/ipmi0) or the Intel IPMI driver (/dev/imb), etc. If used locally and no driver is detected, ipmiutil will use user-space direct I/Os instead.
We can use yum or dnf to install ipmiutil on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipmiutil.
Install ipmiutil on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ipmiutil using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ipmiutil
Install ipmiutil 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 ipmiutil using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ipmiutil
How To Uninstall ipmiutil on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ipmiutil package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ipmiutil
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipmiutil on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.