How To Install icinga2-bin on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-bin on Kali Linux. icinga2-bin is host and network monitoring system - daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-bin on Kali Linux.

What is icinga2-bin

icinga2-bin is:

Icinga 2 is a general-purpose monitoring application to fit the needs of any size of network. Icinga 1.x was a Nagios fork; this new generation has been rewritten from scratch in C++, with multi-threading and cluster support.

Features:

  • all standard features of Icinga and Nagios;
  • much faster and more scalable than Icinga 1 and Nagios;
  • new, more intuitive, template-based configuration format;
  • monitoring services on ICMP (ping) or TCP ports (HTTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, etc.) by executing checks (see monitoring-plugins*);
  • any small script following the Nagios plugin API can be used as a check plugin;
  • notifications about alerts for any custom script (with examples);
  • native support for Livestatus and Graphite.

This package provides the Icinga 2 daemon.

There are three methods to install icinga2-bin on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install icinga2-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga2-bin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install icinga2-bin

Install icinga2-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga2-bin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install icinga2-bin

Install icinga2-bin Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install icinga2-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icinga2-bin

How To Uninstall icinga2-bin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the icinga2-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove icinga2-bin

Uninstall icinga2-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icinga2-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga2-bin

Remove icinga2-bin Configurations and Data

To remove icinga2-bin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icinga2-bin

Remove icinga2-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove icinga2-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga2-bin

Dependencies

icinga2-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-bin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.