How To Install nagios-plugins-dummy on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-dummy
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is nagios-plugins-dummy
Provides check_dummy support for Nagios. This plugin does not actually check anything, simply provide it with a flag 0-4 and it will return the corresponding status code to Nagios.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install nagios-plugins-dummy
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-plugins-dummy.
Install nagios-plugins-dummy 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 nagios-plugins-dummy
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-dummy
Install nagios-plugins-dummy 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 nagios-plugins-dummy
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-dummy
How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-dummy on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-dummy
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-dummy
nagios-plugins-dummy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/73c26d8c0b5d2b3e5b5b85c4dbecb42b341bbe
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_dummy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-dummy
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.