How To Install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles on Debian 12.
What is monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles is:
check_logfiles: Plugin for Nagios which scans log files for specific patterns. Features:
- Detection of rotations - usually nightly logfiles are rotated and compressed. Each operating system or company has it??s own naming scheme. If this rotation is done between two runs of check_logfiles also the rotated archive has to be scanned to avoid gaps. The most common rotation schemes are predefined but you can describe any strategy (shortly: where and under which name is a logfile archived).
- More than one pattern can be defined which again can be classified as warning patterns and critical patterns.
- Triggered actions - Usually nagios plugins return just an exit code and a line of text, describing the result of the check. Sometimes, however, you want to run some code during the scan every time you got a hit. Check_logfiles lets you call scripts either after every hit or at the beginning or the end of it??s runtime.
- Exceptions - If a pattern matches, the matched line could be a very special case which should not be counted as an error. You can define exception patterns which are more specific versions of your critical/warning patterns. Such a match would then cancel an alert.
- Thresholds - You can define the number of matching lines which are necessary to activate an alert.
- Protocol - The matching lines can be written to a protocol file the name of which will be included in the plugin??s output.
- Macros - Pattern definitions and logfile names may contain macros, which are resolved at runtime.
- Performance data - The number of lines scanned and the number of warnings/criticals is output.
- Windows - The plugin works with Unix as well as with Windows (e.g. with ActiveState Perl).
There are three methods to install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles on Debian 12. 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-check-logfiles 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-check-logfiles using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
Install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
Install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
How To Uninstall monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles on Debian 12
To uninstall only the monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
Uninstall monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles And Its Dependencies
To uninstall monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
Remove monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles Configurations and Data
To remove monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
Remove monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
Dependencies
monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
