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

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-snmp on Rocky Linux 8.

What is nagios-plugins-snmp

Provides check_snmp support for Nagios.

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

Install nagios-plugins-snmp 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-snmp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-snmp

Install nagios-plugins-snmp 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-snmp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-snmp

How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-snmp on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-snmp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-snmp

nagios-plugins-snmp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/17049d0ceeb96e0d605ec6bae2ea5f4f10129f
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_snmp

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-snmp on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.