How To Install icinga-common on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-common on Debian 9. icinga-common is host and network monitoring system - support files

Introduction

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

What is icinga-common

icinga-common 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 contains the common files for all Icinga packages.

There are three methods to install icinga-common 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install icinga-common

Install icinga-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install icinga-common

Install icinga-common 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-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icinga-common

How To Uninstall icinga-common on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove icinga-common

Uninstall icinga-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga-common

Remove icinga-common Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge icinga-common

Remove icinga-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga-common

Dependencies

icinga-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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