How To Install ceilometer-alarm-notifier on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-alarm-notifier on Debian 9. ceilometer-alarm-notifier is OpenStack efficient metering counters system - aodh-notifier trans

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-alarm-notifier on Debian 9.

What is ceilometer-alarm-notifier

ceilometer-alarm-notifier is:

Ceilometer aims to deliver a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components. The delivery of counters must be traceable and auditable, the counters must be easily extensible to support new projects, and agents doing data collections should be independent of the overall system.

This package is a dummy transition package to aodh-notifier and can be safely removed.

There are three methods to install ceilometer-alarm-notifier on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ceilometer-alarm-notifier Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-alarm-notifier using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ceilometer-alarm-notifier

Install ceilometer-alarm-notifier Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-alarm-notifier using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ceilometer-alarm-notifier

Install ceilometer-alarm-notifier Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ceilometer-alarm-notifier using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ceilometer-alarm-notifier

How To Uninstall ceilometer-alarm-notifier on Debian 9

To uninstall only the ceilometer-alarm-notifier package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ceilometer-alarm-notifier

Uninstall ceilometer-alarm-notifier And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ceilometer-alarm-notifier and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ceilometer-alarm-notifier

Remove ceilometer-alarm-notifier Configurations and Data

To remove ceilometer-alarm-notifier configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ceilometer-alarm-notifier

Remove ceilometer-alarm-notifier configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ceilometer-alarm-notifier configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ceilometer-alarm-notifier

Dependencies

ceilometer-alarm-notifier have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceilometer-alarm-notifier package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.