How To Install monitoring-plugins on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitoring-plugins on Debian 12.
What is monitoring-plugins
monitoring-plugins is:
Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems like Naemon and Icinga.
This metapackage will install the entire suite of plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems. If you are installing monitoring plugins on a remote “satellite” server (using nagios-nrpe-server or nsca), you may be interested in the monitoring-plugins-basic package.
There are three methods to install monitoring-plugins 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install monitoring-plugins
Install monitoring-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install monitoring-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install monitoring-plugins
Install monitoring-plugins 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install monitoring-plugins
How To Uninstall monitoring-plugins on Debian 12
To uninstall only the monitoring-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove monitoring-plugins
Uninstall monitoring-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall monitoring-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove monitoring-plugins
Remove monitoring-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove monitoring-plugins configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge monitoring-plugins
Remove monitoring-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove monitoring-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge monitoring-plugins
Dependencies
monitoring-plugins have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install monitoring-plugins package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
