How To Install pandorafms-agent on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pandorafms-agent on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is pandorafms-agent
pandorafms-agent is:
Pandora FMS is a monitoring application to watch systems and applications. Pandora FMS allows you to know the status of any element of your bussiness systems. Pandora FMS watches your hardware, your software, your multilayer system and, of course, your Operating System. Pandora FMS can detect a network interface down or the movement of any NASDAQ new technology market value. If you wish, Pandora FMS can send a SMS message when your system or your application fails… or when Google stock value drops below 330 US$.
Pandora FMS will adjust, like an octopus, to your systems and requirements, because it has been designed to be open, modular, multiplattform and easy to customize. Pandora FMS is developed for system administrators.
Pandora FMS Agent is a agent program for Pandora FMS. You should install this package into every target servers.
There are three methods to install pandorafms-agent 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 pandorafms-agent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pandorafms-agent using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pandorafms-agent
Install pandorafms-agent Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pandorafms-agent using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pandorafms-agent
Install pandorafms-agent 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 pandorafms-agent using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pandorafms-agent
How To Uninstall pandorafms-agent on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the pandorafms-agent package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pandorafms-agent
Uninstall pandorafms-agent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pandorafms-agent and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pandorafms-agent
Remove pandorafms-agent Configurations and Data
To remove pandorafms-agent configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pandorafms-agent
Remove pandorafms-agent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pandorafms-agent configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pandorafms-agent
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pandorafms-agent package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
