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Install Tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Follow these steps to install Aerospike Tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and on el8, and el9-compatible variants, such as CentOS, Rocky Linux, Amazon Linux, and Oracle Linux.

Prerequisites​

Verify that your system satisfies the prerequisites that are described in Tools Requirements.

Installation​

See Download Aerospike Tools for more details on manual or automated downloads of Tools packages.

wget -O aerospike-tools.tgz https://download.aerospike.com/artifacts/aerospike-tools/latest/aerospike-tools__el8_x86_64.tgz
tar -xvf aerospike-tools.tgz
cd aerospike-tools-*
sudo ./asinstall

RPM Format​

You can install the RPMs directly.

aerospike-tools-<version>-1.<RHEL>.<architecture>.rpm

version: 8.1.0 and later

RHEL: el7, el8, el9, amzn2023

architecture: x86_64, aarch64

sudo rpm -Uvh aerospike-tools-8.1.0-1.el7.aarch64.rpm

Verify​

Verify the package installation:

rpm -qa | grep aerospike-tools

If security is enabled for your Aerospike cluster, provide the username and password each time you verify one of the tools.

Verify asadm​

asadm --version

Expected output:

Aerospike Administration Shell
Version 2.2.0

Verify aql​

aql --version

Expected output:

Aerospike Query Client
Version 5.2.0
C Client Version 5.2.0
Copyright 2012-2020 Aerospike. All rights reserved.

Verify asinfo​

asinfo --version

Expected output:

Aerospike Information Tool
Version 5.2.0

Verify asbackup​

asbackup --version

Expected output:

Aerospike Backup Utility
Version 3.7.2
C Client Version 5.2.0
Copyright 2015-2021 Aerospike. All rights reserved.

Verify asrestore​

asrestore --version

Expected output:

Aerospike Restore Utility
Version 3.7.2
C Client Version 5.2.0
Copyright 2015-2021 Aerospike. All rights reserved.