How To Install nagios-nrpe-server on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-nrpe-server
on Debian 10.
What is nagios-nrpe-server
nagios-nrpe-server is:
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring and management system.
The purpose of this addon is to allow you to execute Nagios plugins on a remote host in as transparent a manner as possible.
This program runs as a background process on the remote host and processes command execution requests from the check_nrpe plugin on the Nagios host.
There are three methods to install nagios-nrpe-server
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nagios-nrpe-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios-nrpe-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nagios-nrpe-server
Install nagios-nrpe-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios-nrpe-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nagios-nrpe-server
Install nagios-nrpe-server 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 nagios-nrpe-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nagios-nrpe-server
How To Uninstall nagios-nrpe-server on Debian 10
To uninstall only the nagios-nrpe-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nagios-nrpe-server
Uninstall nagios-nrpe-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nagios-nrpe-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nagios-nrpe-server
Remove nagios-nrpe-server Configurations and Data
To remove nagios-nrpe-server
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nagios-nrpe-server
Remove nagios-nrpe-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nagios-nrpe-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nagios-nrpe-server
Dependencies
nagios-nrpe-server have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-nrpe-server
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.