How To Install monit on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on CentOS 7.
What is monit
monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
We can use yum or dnf to install monit on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install monit.
Install monit on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install monit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install monit
Install monit on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install monit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install monit
How To Uninstall monit on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the monit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove monit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install monit on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.