How To Install icinga-idoutils on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-idoutils on Debian 9.
What is icinga-idoutils
icinga-idoutils 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 icinga-dataobjects support which makes it possible to import Icinga status information messages into an SQL database.
There are three methods to install icinga-idoutils 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-idoutils 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-idoutils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icinga-idoutils
Install icinga-idoutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icinga-idoutils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icinga-idoutils
Install icinga-idoutils 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-idoutils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icinga-idoutils
How To Uninstall icinga-idoutils on Debian 9
To uninstall only the icinga-idoutils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icinga-idoutils
Uninstall icinga-idoutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icinga-idoutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga-idoutils
Remove icinga-idoutils Configurations and Data
To remove icinga-idoutils configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icinga-idoutils
Remove icinga-idoutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icinga-idoutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga-idoutils
Dependencies
icinga-idoutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-idoutils package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
