How To Install icinga-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is icinga-dbg
icinga-dbg 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 gdb debugging symbols for the Icinga binaries and the mini_epn tool which can help in debugging Icinga problems.
There are three methods to install icinga-dbg 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 icinga-dbg 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-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icinga-dbg
Install icinga-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icinga-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icinga-dbg
Install icinga-dbg 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 icinga-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icinga-dbg
How To Uninstall icinga-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the icinga-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icinga-dbg
Uninstall icinga-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icinga-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga-dbg
Remove icinga-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove icinga-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icinga-dbg
Remove icinga-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icinga-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga-dbg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
