How To Install nagios-plugins on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins on CentOS 7. nagios-plugins is Host/service/network monitoring program plugins for Nagios

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins on CentOS 7.

What is nagios-plugins

Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network, and to email or page you when a problem arises or is resolved. Nagios runs on a Unix server as a background or daemon process, intermittently running checks on various services that you specify. The actual service checks are performed by separate “plugin” programs which return the status of the checks to Nagios. This package contains those plugins.

We can use yum or dnf to install nagios-plugins on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-plugins.

Install nagios-plugins on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nagios-plugins using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins

Install nagios-plugins on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nagios-plugins using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins

How To Uninstall nagios-plugins on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the nagios-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.