How To Install python-vpoller-doc on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-vpoller-doc on CentOS 7.

What is python-vpoller-doc

vPoller is a distributed vSphere API Proxy, designed for discovering and polling of vSphere objects. It uses the vSphere API in order to perform discovery and polling of vSphere objects. vPoller uses the ZeroMQ messaging library for distributing tasks to workers and load balancing of client requests. vPoller can be integrated with other systems, which require access to vSphere objects, but do not have native support for it. Possible scenarios where vPoller could be used is integration with monitoring systems as part of the discovery and polling process in order to provide monitoring of your vSphere environment. This pacakge installs several documentation files.

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

Install python-vpoller-doc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install python-vpoller-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python-vpoller-doc

Install python-vpoller-doc 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 python-vpoller-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python-vpoller-doc

How To Uninstall python-vpoller-doc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the python-vpoller-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python-vpoller-doc

References

• python-vpoller-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-vpoller-doc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.