How To Install net-snmp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install net-snmp
on CentOS 7.
What is net-snmp
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl mib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons, documentation, etc. You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package, which contains NET-SNMP utilities.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install net-snmp
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install net-snmp.
Install net-snmp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install net-snmp
using yum
by running the following command:
Install net-snmp 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 net-snmp
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall net-snmp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the net-snmp
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install net-snmp
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.