How To Install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch is Reconfigure SNMP to include host SNMP agent within BMC

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch`

Given a host with BMC, this package would extend system configuration of net-snmp to include redirections to BMC based SNMP.

We can use yum to install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch.

Install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch

How To Uninstall bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch

bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/bmc-snmp-proxy
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bmc-snmp-proxy.service
/usr/libexec/bmc-snmp-proxy

References

bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bmc-snmp-proxy.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.