How To Install munin-node on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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-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 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-node using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install munin-node

How To Uninstall munin-node on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• init-system-helpers
• perl

References

• munin-node website

Summary

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