How To Install icinga-cgi on Debian 10

Learn how to install icinga-cgi on Debian 10 with this tutorial. icinga-cgi is host and network monitoring system - CGI configuration

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-cgi on Debian 10.

What is icinga-cgi

icinga-cgi is:

Icinga is a modular monitoring framework for hosts, services, and networks, based on the Nagios project. It is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit any need.

Features include:

  • monitoring of network services via ping, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, or TCP port
  • plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks
  • contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
  • support for proactive problem resolution (handlers can be defined to be run during service or host events)
  • web output: current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.

This package provides CGI configuration files and the required dependencies.

There are three methods to install icinga-cgi on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install icinga-cgi Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga-cgi using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install icinga-cgi

Install icinga-cgi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga-cgi using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install icinga-cgi

Install icinga-cgi 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 icinga-cgi using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icinga-cgi

How To Uninstall icinga-cgi on Debian 10

To uninstall only the icinga-cgi package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icinga-cgi

Uninstall icinga-cgi And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icinga-cgi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga-cgi

Remove icinga-cgi Configurations and Data

To remove icinga-cgi configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icinga-cgi

Remove icinga-cgi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove icinga-cgi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga-cgi

Dependencies

icinga-cgi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-cgi package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.