How To Install vpoller on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vpoller on CentOS 7.
What is vpoller
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 the executable binaries.
We can use yum or dnf to install vpoller on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vpoller.
Install vpoller on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install vpoller using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vpoller
Install vpoller 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 vpoller using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vpoller
How To Uninstall vpoller on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the vpoller package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vpoller
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vpoller on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
