How To Install dmraid-events.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid-events.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dmraid-events.x86_64 is dmevent_tool (Device-mapper event tool) and DSO

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid-events.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dmraid-events.x86_64`

Provides a dmeventd DSO and the dmevent_tool to register devices with it for device monitoring. All active RAID sets should be manually registered with dmevent_tool.

We can use yum to install dmraid-events.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmraid-events.x86_64.

Install dmraid-events.x86_64 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 dmraid-events.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dmraid-events.x86_64

How To Uninstall dmraid-events.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dmraid-events.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dmraid-events.x86_64

dmraid-events.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/sbin/dm_dso_reg_tool
/sbin/dmevent_tool
/usr/share/man/man8/dm_dso_reg_tool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dmevent_tool.8.gz

References

dmraid-events.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmraid-events.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.