How To Install icinga2-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install icinga2-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. icinga2-doc is host and network monitoring system - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-doc on Debian 10.

What is icinga2-doc

icinga2-doc is:

Icinga 2 is a general-purpose monitoring application to fit the needs of any size of network. Icinga 1.x was a Nagios fork; this new generation has been rewritten from scratch in C++, with multi-threading and cluster support.

Features:

  • all standard features of Icinga and Nagios;
  • much faster and more scalable than Icinga 1 and Nagios;
  • new, more intuitive, template-based configuration format;
  • monitoring services on ICMP (ping) or TCP ports (HTTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, etc.) by executing checks (see monitoring-plugins*);
  • any small script following the Nagios plugin API can be used as a check plugin;
  • notifications about alerts for any custom script (with examples);
  • native support for Livestatus and Graphite.

This package provides the Icinga 2 documentation.

There are three methods to install icinga2-doc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install icinga2-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga2-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install icinga2-doc

Install icinga2-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga2-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install icinga2-doc

Install icinga2-doc 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 icinga2-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icinga2-doc

How To Uninstall icinga2-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the icinga2-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icinga2-doc

Uninstall icinga2-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icinga2-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga2-doc

Remove icinga2-doc Configurations and Data

To remove icinga2-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icinga2-doc

Remove icinga2-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove icinga2-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga2-doc

Dependencies

icinga2-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.