Installing optional packages
You can install optional Linux packages to help maintain and manage your Edge Gateway environment. These optional packages are applicable only if you installed the Edge Gateway as a virtual application.
Before you begin
Download the optional package from IBM Support Fix Central.
About this task
You can install the following optional packages:
lsof
- You can use
lsof
to display files, including network files like network socket, and the processes that opened them. lsyncd
- You can use this tool to synchronize a source directory with one or more local and remote directories.
net-snmp
- You can use
Net-SNMP
to use and manage the SNMP protocol. net-snmp-utils
- The
net-snmp-utils
package contains utilities to use withNet-SNMP
. Use this package if you want these utilities to manage your network using the SNMP protocol. openvpn
- This tool uses a custom security protocol that uses SSL/TLS for key exchanges. It is open source software that implements virtual private network (VPN) techniques for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in remote access facilities.
rh-python36
- If you want to use Python 3, you can use the
rh-python36
package to set up a virtual environment. For information about how to set up the virtual environment, see this Red Hat documentation. rsync
- You use
rsync
to synchronize files on remote and local systems and to copy files to remote systems and back again, or to create backups to locally mounted hard disks. screen
Screen
provides the ability to run Linux commands and disconnect and subsequently reconnect. You can also usescreen
to open multiple terminal instances within a single terminal window manager.selinux-policy
- The
selinux-policy
is the set of rules that guide the SELinux security engine and you use it to define the access permissions for all users, programs, processes, files, and devices the policies act on. selinux-policy-targeted
- The
selinux-policy-targeted
is the default policy that defines access controls to specific processes. tcpdump
- The
tcpdump
program is a data-network packet analyzer that displays TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network. zip
- A file package utility that is used to compress files.
Complete the following steps to install the packages that you want.