How To Install nagios4-cgi on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios4-cgi
on Kali Linux.
What is nagios4-cgi
nagios4-cgi is:
Nagios is a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and networks. This package contains the web interface.
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.)
There are three methods to install nagios4-cgi
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nagios4-cgi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios4-cgi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nagios4-cgi
Install nagios4-cgi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios4-cgi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nagios4-cgi
Install nagios4-cgi Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios4-cgi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nagios4-cgi
How To Uninstall nagios4-cgi on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the nagios4-cgi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nagios4-cgi
Uninstall nagios4-cgi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nagios4-cgi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nagios4-cgi
Remove nagios4-cgi Configurations and Data
To remove nagios4-cgi
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nagios4-cgi
Remove nagios4-cgi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nagios4-cgi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nagios4-cgi
Dependencies
nagios4-cgi have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios4-cgi
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.