How To Install icinga2-doc on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-doc on Kali Linux.
What is icinga2-doc
icinga2-doc 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 documentation.
There are three methods to install icinga2-doc 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-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install icinga2-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icinga2-docInstall icinga2-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install icinga2-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icinga2-docInstall icinga2-doc 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install icinga2-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icinga2-docHow To Uninstall icinga2-doc on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the icinga2-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icinga2-docUninstall icinga2-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icinga2-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga2-docRemove icinga2-doc Configurations and Data
To remove icinga2-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icinga2-docRemove icinga2-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icinga2-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga2-docDependencies
icinga2-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
