How To Install nagios-plugins-dummy on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-dummy on Rocky Linux 8. nagios-plugins-dummy is Nagios Plugin - check_dummy

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.