How To Install ledmon on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ledmon on CentOS 7.
What is ledmon
The ledmon and ledctl are user space applications design to control LED associated with each slot in an enclosure or a drive bay. There are two types of system Status LED) and 3-LED system (Activity LED, Locate LED, Fail LED). User must have root privileges to use this application.
We can use yum or dnf to install ledmon on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ledmon.
Install ledmon on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ledmon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ledmon
Install ledmon 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 ledmon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ledmon
How To Uninstall ledmon on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ledmon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ledmon
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ledmon on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
