How To Install munin-node on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install munin-node on Debian 9.
What is munin-node
munin-node 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 daemon for the nodes being monitored. You should install it on all the nodes in your network. It will know how to extract all sorts of data from the node it runs on, and will wait for the gatherer to request this data for further processing.
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-node on Debian 9. 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-node 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-node using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install munin-node
Install munin-node Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install munin-node using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install munin-node
Install munin-node 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 munin-node using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install munin-node
How To Uninstall munin-node on Debian 9
To uninstall only the munin-node package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove munin-node
Uninstall munin-node And Its Dependencies
To uninstall munin-node and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove munin-node
Remove munin-node Configurations and Data
To remove munin-node configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge munin-node
Remove munin-node configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove munin-node configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge munin-node
Dependencies
munin-node have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install munin-node package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.