How To Install icinga2-studio on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-studio on Debian 9. icinga2-studio is host and network monitoring system - studio API GUI

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-studio on Debian 9.

What is icinga2-studio

icinga2-studio 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 a GUI for the Icinga 2 API.

There are three methods to install icinga2-studio 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 icinga2-studio 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-studio using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install icinga2-studio

Install icinga2-studio Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install icinga2-studio

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

sudo aptitude -y install icinga2-studio

How To Uninstall icinga2-studio on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove icinga2-studio

Uninstall icinga2-studio And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icinga2-studio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga2-studio

Remove icinga2-studio Configurations and Data

To remove icinga2-studio configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icinga2-studio

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

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

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

Dependencies

icinga2-studio have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-studio package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.