How To Install nagios-plugins-fts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-fts on Rocky Linux 8. nagios-plugins-fts is Nagios probes to be run remotely against FTS3 machines

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-fts on Rocky Linux 8.

What is nagios-plugins-fts

This package provides the nagios probes for FTS3. Usually they are installed in the nagios host, and they will contact the remote services running in the FTS3 machines.

We can use yum or dnf to install nagios-plugins-fts on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-plugins-fts.

Install nagios-plugins-fts on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-fts

Install nagios-plugins-fts on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-fts

How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-fts on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-fts

nagios-plugins-fts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/nagios/objects/fts3-template.cfg
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/fts
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/fts/check_fts_service
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/fts/check_fts_stalled_server
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/fts/check_fts_stalled_transfers
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-fts
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-fts/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-fts/README.md

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-fts on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.