How To Install nagios-plugins-dns on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is nagios-plugins-dns

Provides check_dns support for Nagios.

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

Install nagios-plugins-dns 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-dns using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-dns

Install nagios-plugins-dns 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-dns using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-dns

How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-dns on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-dns

References

• nagios-plugins-dns website

Summary

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