How To Install munin on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is munin

munin is:

Munin is a highly flexible and powerful solution used to create graphs of virtually everything imaginable throughout your network, while still maintaining a rattling ease of installation and configuration.

This package contains the grapher/gatherer. You will only need one instance of it in your network. It will periodically poll all the nodes in your network it’s aware of for data, which it in turn will use to create graphs and HTML pages, suitable for viewing with your graphical web browser of choice.

It is also able to alert you if any value is outside of a preset boundary, useful if you want to be alerted if a filesystem is about to grow full, for instance. You can do this by making Munin run an arbitrary command when you need to be alert it, or make use of the intrinsic Nagios support.

Munin is written in Perl, and relies heavily on Tobi Oetiker’s excellent RRDtool. To see a real example of Munin in action, you can follow a link from http://munin-monitoring.org/ to a live installation.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install munin

Install munin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install munin

Install munin 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 munin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install munin

How To Uninstall munin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove munin

Uninstall munin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove munin

Remove munin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge munin

Remove munin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge munin

Dependencies

munin have the following dependencies:

• init-system-helpers
• debconf
• perl

References

• munin website

Summary

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