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