How To Install monitorix on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install monitorix on Kali Linux.

What is monitorix

monitorix is:

Monitorix is a lightweight tool that allow you to gather and display system metrics.

It consists mainly of two programs: a collector, called monitorix, which is a Perl daemon that is started automatically like any other system service, and a CGI script called monitorix.cgi. Monitorix includes its own HTTP server built in, so you aren’t forced to install a third-party web server to use it.

There are three methods to install monitorix 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 monitorix Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install monitorix using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install monitorix

Install monitorix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install monitorix using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install monitorix

Install monitorix 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install monitorix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install monitorix

How To Uninstall monitorix on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the monitorix package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove monitorix

Uninstall monitorix And Its Dependencies

To uninstall monitorix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove monitorix

Remove monitorix Configurations and Data

To remove monitorix configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge monitorix

Remove monitorix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove monitorix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge monitorix

Dependencies

monitorix have the following dependencies:

• init-system-helpers
• rrdtool
• perl
• libwww-perl
• libmailtools-perl
• libmime-lite-perl
• librrds-perl
• libdbi-perl
• libhttp-server-simple-perl
• libconfig-general-perl
• libio-socket-ssl-perl
• libxml-simple-perl
• net-tools
• libxml-libxml-perl

References

• monitorix website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install monitorix package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.