How To Install check-mk on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install check-mk on CentOS 7.
What is check-mk
check-mk is a general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data. It adopts a new approach for collecting data from operating systems and network components. It obsoletes NRPE, check_by_ssh, NSClient, and check_snmp and it has many benefits, the most important are a significant reduction of CPU usage on the Nagios host and an automatic inventory of items to be checked on hosts.
We can use yum or dnf to install check-mk on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install check-mk.
Install check-mk on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install check-mk using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install check-mk
Install check-mk on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install check-mk using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install check-mk
How To Uninstall check-mk on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the check-mk package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove check-mk
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install check-mk on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.