How To Install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common on CentOS 7.

What is nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common

LCGDM includes both the Disk Pool Manager (DPM) and LCG File Catalog (LFC) components. This package provides the common libraries and files used by all LCGDM nagios probes.

We can use yum or dnf to install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common.

Install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common

Install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common 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 nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common

How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common

References

• nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.