How To Install mon on Fedora 34

mon is General-purpose resource monitoring system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mon on Fedora 34.

What is mon

Mon is a general-purpose resource monitoring system. It can be used to monitor network service availability, server problems, environmental conditions (i.e., the temperature in a room) or other things. Mon can be used to test the condition and/or to trigger an action upon failure of the condition. Mon keeps the testing and action-taking tasks as separate, stand-alone programs. Mon is very extensible. Monitors and alerts are not a part of mon, but the distribution comes with a handful of them to get you started. This means that if a new service needs monitoring, or if a new alert is required, the mon server will not need to be changed.

We can use yum or dnf to install mon on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mon.

Install mon on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install mon

Install mon on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install mon

How To Uninstall mon on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mon

mon Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/mon
/etc/mon/auth.cf
/etc/mon/mon.cf
/etc/mon/userfile
/usr/bin/mon
/usr/bin/moncmd
/usr/bin/monshow
/usr/bin/skymon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/6f2f90394043242976a6896e5b472d114ec7cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/de8bd822f744fe8c58839af7daf91e8192caa7
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mon.service
/usr/lib64/mon
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/alert.template
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/bugzilla.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/file.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/gnats.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/hpov.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/irc.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/mail.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/netpage.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/qpage.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/sms.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/snapdelete.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/snpp.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/test.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/trap.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/alert.d/winpopup.alert
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/asyncreboot.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/cpqhealth.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/dialin.monitor.wrap
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/dns-query.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/dns.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/file_change.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/foundry-chassis.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/fping.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/ftp.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/hpnp.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/http.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/http_tppnp.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/imap.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/ldap.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/local-syslog.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/lpd.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/mon.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/msql-mysql.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/na_quota.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/netappfree.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/nntp.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/ntpdate.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/phttp.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/ping.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/pop3.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/process.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/rd.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/reboot.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/rpc.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/seq.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/silkworm.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/smtp.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/smtp3.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/snmpdiskspace.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/snmpvar.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/tcp.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/telnet.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/trace.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/traceroute.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/up_rtt.monitor
/usr/lib64/mon/mon.d/xedia-ipsec-tunnel.monitor
/usr/share/doc/mon
/usr/share/doc/mon/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/mon/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mon/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/mon/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/mon/KNOWN-PROBLEMS
/usr/share/doc/mon/README
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.alerts
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.cgi-bin
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.hints
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.mon.cgi
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.monitors
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.msql-mysql.monitor
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.paging
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.protocol
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.rpc.monitor
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.snmpdiskspace.monitor
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.snmpvar.monitor
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.software
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.syslog.monitor
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.traps
/usr/share/doc/mon/README.variables
/usr/share/doc/mon/TODO
/usr/share/doc/mon/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/mon/aim.alert.README
/usr/share/doc/mon/auth.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/batch-example
/usr/share/doc/mon/bugzilla.alert.README
/usr/share/doc/mon/example.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/example.m4
/usr/share/doc/mon/example.monshowrc
/usr/share/doc/mon/gnats.alert.README
/usr/share/doc/mon/hpov.alert.README
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/README
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/README.1.52
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/README.site-customization
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/config
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/config/mon.cgi.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/config/mon.cgi.cf.tva
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/mon.cgi
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/util
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/util/README
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi-1.52/util/moncgi-appsecret.pl
/usr/share/doc/mon/mon.cgi.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/na_quota.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/netappfree.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/pageomat.README
/usr/share/doc/mon/skymon
/usr/share/doc/mon/skymon/README
/usr/share/doc/mon/skymon/allow
/usr/share/doc/mon/skymon/procmail
/usr/share/doc/mon/skymon/skymon
/usr/share/doc/mon/sms.alert.README
/usr/share/doc/mon/snapdelete.alert.README
/usr/share/doc/mon/snmpdiskspace.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/snmpopt.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/snmpvar.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/utils
/usr/share/doc/mon/utils/cf-to-hosts
/usr/share/doc/mon/utils/syslog.monitor
/usr/share/doc/mon/very-simple.cf
/usr/share/doc/mon/winpopup.alert.README
/usr/share/man/man1/moncmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/monshow.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mon.8.gz
/var/lib/mon
/var/lib/mon/log.d
/var/lib/mon/state.d
/var/www/cgi-bin/mon.cgi

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mon on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.