How To Install nagios3-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios3-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is nagios3-common
nagios3-common is:
Nagios is a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and networks. nagios3-common contains the common files for the nagios3 package.
Nagios’ features include:
- Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
- Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks
- Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
- Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events (for proactive problem resolution)
- Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.)
Nagios is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit your own needs.
This package is the new version 3.x series of nagios, which replaced the 2.x versions.
Nagios is a replacement of the Netsaint project. It accepts and uses the previous Netsaint modules transparently.
Upstream URL: http://www.nagios.org/
There are three methods to install nagios3-common on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nagios3-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios3-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nagios3-common
Install nagios3-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios3-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nagios3-common
Install nagios3-common 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios3-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nagios3-common
How To Uninstall nagios3-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the nagios3-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nagios3-common
Uninstall nagios3-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nagios3-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nagios3-common
Remove nagios3-common Configurations and Data
To remove nagios3-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nagios3-common
Remove nagios3-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nagios3-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nagios3-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios3-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
