How To Install monitoring-plugins on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitoring-plugins on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is monitoring-plugins
monitoring-plugins is:
Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems like Naemon and Icinga.
This metapackage will install the entire suite of plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems. If you are installing monitoring plugins on a remote “satellite” server (using nagios-nrpe-server or nsca), you may be interested in the monitoring-plugins-basic package.
Package: monitoring-plugins Architecture: all Version: 2.2-6ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Nagios Maintainer Group [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 51 Provides: nagios-plugins Depends: monitoring-plugins-basic, monitoring-plugins-standard Suggests: icinga | icinga2, nagios-plugins-contrib Filename: pool/universe/m/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins_2.2-6ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 8580 MD5sum: 1387a6a31d22b676049122af870a6aaa SHA1: 37ca936b4335e7417a8481cf37c89b6e964d0da6 SHA256: d88620d135c89f08a9f32ae452135752f766b356e66f2bbd48a8b8dce80d4e59 Homepage: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org Description-en: Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems (metapackage) Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems like Naemon and Icinga.
This metapackage will install the entire suite of plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems. If you are installing monitoring plugins on a remote “satellite” server (using nagios-nrpe-server or nsca), you may be interested in the monitoring-plugins-basic package.
There are three methods to install monitoring-plugins on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install monitoring-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install monitoring-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install monitoring-plugins
Install monitoring-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install monitoring-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install monitoring-plugins
Install monitoring-plugins 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install monitoring-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install monitoring-plugins
How To Uninstall monitoring-plugins on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the monitoring-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove monitoring-plugins
Uninstall monitoring-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall monitoring-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove monitoring-plugins
Remove monitoring-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove monitoring-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge monitoring-plugins
Remove monitoring-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove monitoring-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge monitoring-plugins
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitoring-plugins package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
