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

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-ldap on Rocky Linux 8. nagios-plugins-ldap is Nagios Plugin - check_ldap

Introduction

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

What is `nagios-plugins-ldap`

Provides check_ldap support for Nagios.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-ldap

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

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-ldap

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

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

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-ldap

nagios-plugins-ldap Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/2b4a383083fb0ee3a9abdd8f342556e940966b
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ldap
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ldaps

References

nagios-plugins-ldap website

Summary

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