How To Install monit on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on CentOS 8.
What is monit
monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
We can use yum or dnf to install monit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install monit.
Install monit on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install monit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install monit
Install monit on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install monit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install monit
How To Uninstall monit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the monit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove monit
monit Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/logrotate.d/monit
/etc/monit.d
/etc/monit.d/logging
/etc/monitrc
/usr/bin/monit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/71ad8c05c1c78523ae566958e729a7178ff6ff
/usr/lib/systemd/system/monit.service
/usr/share/doc/monit
/usr/share/doc/monit/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/monit/README
/usr/share/man/man1/monit.1.gz
/var/log/monit.log
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.