How To Install monitorix on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install monitorix on Rocky Linux 8. monitorix is A free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install monitorix on Rocky Linux 8.

What is monitorix

Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool designed to monitor as many services and system resources as possible. It has been created to be used under production Linux/UNIX servers, but due to its simplicity and small size may also be used on embedded devices as well.

We can use yum or dnf to install monitorix on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install monitorix.

Install monitorix on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install monitorix using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install monitorix

Install monitorix on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install monitorix using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install monitorix

How To Uninstall monitorix on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the monitorix package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove monitorix

monitorix Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/logrotate.d/monitorix
/etc/monitorix
/etc/monitorix/conf.d
/etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf
/etc/sysconfig/monitorix
/usr/bin/monitorix
/usr/lib/monitorix
/usr/lib/monitorix/HTTPServer.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/Monitorix.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/ambsens.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/apache.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/apcupsd.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/bind.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/chrony.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/disk.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/du.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/emailreports.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/fail2ban.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/fs.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/ftp.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/gensens.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/hptemp.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/icecast.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/int.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/ipmi.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/kern.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/libvirt.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/lighttpd.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/lmsens.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/mail.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/memcached.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/mongodb.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/mysql.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/net.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/netstat.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/nfsc.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/nfss.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/nginx.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/ntp.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/nut.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/nvidia.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/pagespeed.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/pgsql.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/phpapc.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/phpfpm.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/port.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/proc.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/process.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/raspberrypi.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/redis.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/serv.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/squid.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/system.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/tc.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/tinyproxy.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/traffacct.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/unbound.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/user.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/varnish.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/verlihub.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/wowza.pm
/usr/lib/monitorix/zfs.pm
/usr/lib/systemd/system/monitorix.service
/usr/share/doc/monitorix
/usr/share/doc/monitorix/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/monitorix/Changes
/usr/share/doc/monitorix/README
/usr/share/doc/monitorix/README.nginx
/usr/share/doc/monitorix/htpasswd.pl
/usr/share/doc/monitorix/monitorix-alert.sh
/usr/share/doc/monitorix/monitorix-apache.conf
/usr/share/doc/monitorix/monitorix-lighttpd.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/monitorix.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/monitorix.8.gz
/var/lib/monitorix
/var/lib/monitorix/reports
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/ca.html
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/de.html
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/en.html
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/fr.html
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/it.html
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/nl_NL.html
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/pl.html
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/sk.html
/var/lib/monitorix/reports/zh_CN.html
/var/lib/monitorix/usage
/var/lib/monitorix/www
/var/lib/monitorix/www/cgi
/var/lib/monitorix/www/cgi/monitorix.cgi
/var/lib/monitorix/www/css
/var/lib/monitorix/www/css/black.css
/var/lib/monitorix/www/css/white.css
/var/lib/monitorix/www/imgs
/var/lib/monitorix/www/logo_bot.png
/var/lib/monitorix/www/logo_top.png
/var/lib/monitorix/www/monitorixico.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install monitorix on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.