How To Install check-mk-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install check-mk-doc
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is check-mk-doc
check-mk-doc is:
Check_mk adopts a new a approach for collecting data from operating systems and network components. It obsoletes NRPE, check_by_ssh, NSClient and check_snmp. It has many benefits, the most important of which are:
- Significant reduction of CPU usage on the Nagios host.
- Automatic inventory of items to be checked on hosts.
This package contains the check_mk documentation.
There are three methods to install check-mk-doc
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install check-mk-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install check-mk-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install check-mk-doc
Install check-mk-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install check-mk-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install check-mk-doc
Install check-mk-doc 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install check-mk-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install check-mk-doc
How To Uninstall check-mk-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the check-mk-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove check-mk-doc
Uninstall check-mk-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall check-mk-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove check-mk-doc
Remove check-mk-doc Configurations and Data
To remove check-mk-doc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge check-mk-doc
Remove check-mk-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove check-mk-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge check-mk-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install check-mk-doc
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.