How To Install monitoring-plugins-basic on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitoring-plugins-basic on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is monitoring-plugins-basic
monitoring-plugins-basic is:
Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems like Naemon and Icinga. It contains the following plugins:
check_apt, check_by_ssh, check_clamd, check_cluster, check_dhcp, check_disk, check_dummy, check_file_age, check_ftp, check_host, check_http, check_icmp, check_ide_smart, check_imap, check_ircd, check_jabber, check_load, check_log, check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf, check_nagios, check_nntp, check_nntps, check_nt, check_ntp, check_ntp_peer, check_ntp_time, check_nwstat, check_overcr, check_ping, check_pop, check_procs, check_real, check_rta_multi, check_sensors, check_simap, check_smtp, check_spop, check_ssh, check_ssmtp, check_swap, check_tcp, check_time, check_udp, check_ups, check_users
This package provides a basic set of plugins with minimal external dependencies. It is not likely to be useful by itself unless you are using a remote “satellite” system (using nagios-nrpe-server, check_by_ssh or nsca, for example).
There are three methods to install monitoring-plugins-basic 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 monitoring-plugins-basic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install monitoring-plugins-basic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install monitoring-plugins-basic
Install monitoring-plugins-basic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install monitoring-plugins-basic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install monitoring-plugins-basic
Install monitoring-plugins-basic 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 monitoring-plugins-basic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install monitoring-plugins-basic
How To Uninstall monitoring-plugins-basic on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the monitoring-plugins-basic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove monitoring-plugins-basic
Uninstall monitoring-plugins-basic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall monitoring-plugins-basic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove monitoring-plugins-basic
Remove monitoring-plugins-basic Configurations and Data
To remove monitoring-plugins-basic configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge monitoring-plugins-basic
Remove monitoring-plugins-basic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove monitoring-plugins-basic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge monitoring-plugins-basic
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitoring-plugins-basic package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
