How To Install icinga-cgi-bin on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-cgi-bin on Debian 9. icinga-cgi-bin is host and network monitoring system - CGI scripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-cgi-bin on Debian 9.

What is icinga-cgi-bin

icinga-cgi-bin is:

Icinga is a modular monitoring framework for hosts, services, and networks, based on the Nagios project. It is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit any need.

Features include:

  • monitoring of network services via ping, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, or TCP port
  • plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks
  • contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
  • support for proactive problem resolution (handlers can be defined to be run during service or host events)
  • web output: current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.

This package provides CGI binaries and HTML files.

There are three methods to install icinga-cgi-bin on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install icinga-cgi-bin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga-cgi-bin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install icinga-cgi-bin

Install icinga-cgi-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga-cgi-bin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install icinga-cgi-bin

Install icinga-cgi-bin Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga-cgi-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icinga-cgi-bin

How To Uninstall icinga-cgi-bin on Debian 9

To uninstall only the icinga-cgi-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icinga-cgi-bin

Uninstall icinga-cgi-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icinga-cgi-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga-cgi-bin

Remove icinga-cgi-bin Configurations and Data

To remove icinga-cgi-bin configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icinga-cgi-bin

Remove icinga-cgi-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove icinga-cgi-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga-cgi-bin

Dependencies

icinga-cgi-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-cgi-bin package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.