VMware Tools are very important role plays when
working with VMware Player, VMware Workstation Pro, VMware ESXi or vSphere. If
VMware Tools are installed on a guest, it will report back the guest information to the VMware
hypervisor like guest’s IP address, CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage etc.
Installing VMware Tools on a Linux machine quit easy. In this article, RPM based installation performed on CentOS 7 and
related packages are available in its defaults repository.
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
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How to Maintain Specific Number of Kernel Packages on CentOS 8
Sometime due to less space on /boot
partition need remove old kernel packages once new/updated kernel installed.
The “installonly_limit” option in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf is used to maintain the number
of kernel available. By default, the limit is set to 3 kernels in CentOS 8.
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
How to Change Machine ID after Cloning a VM on CentOS 7
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Machine ID is a unique hexadecimal, 32-character, lowercase code of the local
system that is set during installation and represents an individual machine ID
over the network.
Thursday, 3 November 2022
How to Install KSH (Korn Shell) Shell on CentOS 8
KSH (Korn Shell) is a shell programming language,
which is upward compatible with 'sh' (Bourne Shell). KSH was developed by
David Korn at Bell Labs in 1980s. KSH is quite popular and used by most of the Linux System Admins to
automate daily tasks on Linux/Unix like operating systems. You can install ksh on CentOS
8 using its AppSteam repository.
How to Configure Local YUM repository on CentOS 8 using Installation ISO Image
YUM (YellowDog Updater
Modified) is a package management tool for RPM based Linux system that helps to
install, uninstall, and update packages local and other client machines over
the network. YUM resolve all dependency and install the package with all
dependencies. CentOS 8 has two repositories BaseOS and AppStream and they are
different from each other. BaseOS repository provides packages which are useful
for an operating system and AppStream provides software packages such as
databases and dependencies.
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
How to Install SNMP Tool on CentOS 7
Monitor
Routers, Firewalls and Linux Servers agentless, with the support of SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) tool. It
is an internet protocol that can retrieve the operational statistics from the
devices remotely. Its binary available in CentOS 7.
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