Can I remove the telnet package from RHEL 6 High Availability cluster nodes that have the fence-agents package installed?

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Issue

  • We need to remove telnet from our systems for security purposes, but it is a dependency of fence-agents. How can I remove it?
  • Do I need to have telnet installed on my cluster nodes? We want to remove it.
  • Why does fence-agents require telnet?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 with the High Availability Add-On
  • fence-agents installed

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