How To Install openscap-daemon on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-daemon on CentOS 7. openscap-daemon is Manages continuous SCAP scans of your infrastructure

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openscap-daemon on CentOS 7.

What is openscap-daemon

OpenSCAP-daemon is a service that performs SCAP scans of bare-metal machines, virtual machines and containers. These scans can be either one-shot or continuous according to a schedule. You can interact with the service using the provided oscapd-cli tool or via the DBus interface.

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

Install openscap-daemon on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install openscap-daemon

Install openscap-daemon 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 openscap-daemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openscap-daemon

How To Uninstall openscap-daemon on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the openscap-daemon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove openscap-daemon

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Summary

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