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