How To Install nut-client on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install nut-client on CentOS 7. nut-client is Network UPS Tools client monitoring utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nut-client on CentOS 7.

What is nut-client

This package includes the client utilities that are required to monitor a ups that the client host has access to, but where the UPS is physically attached to a different computer on the network.

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

Install nut-client on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nut-client using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nut-client

Install nut-client 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 nut-client using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nut-client

How To Uninstall nut-client on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the nut-client package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nut-client

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nut-client on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.