How To Install syslog-nagios-bridge on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-nagios-bridge
on Debian 10.
What is syslog-nagios-bridge
syslog-nagios-bridge is:
syslog-nagios-bridge brings Syslog and Nagios together, listening for Syslog events from the network, determining when they meet an error threshold, mapping the host and syslog tag value to a Nagios service definition and submitting a passive checkresult to Nagios.
Users clear the alerts manually through the Nagios web UI after checking the log and resolving the problem.
There are three methods to install syslog-nagios-bridge
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install syslog-nagios-bridge Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install syslog-nagios-bridge
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install syslog-nagios-bridge
Install syslog-nagios-bridge Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install syslog-nagios-bridge
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install syslog-nagios-bridge
Install syslog-nagios-bridge 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install syslog-nagios-bridge
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install syslog-nagios-bridge
How To Uninstall syslog-nagios-bridge on Debian 10
To uninstall only the syslog-nagios-bridge
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove syslog-nagios-bridge
Uninstall syslog-nagios-bridge And Its Dependencies
To uninstall syslog-nagios-bridge
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove syslog-nagios-bridge
Remove syslog-nagios-bridge Configurations and Data
To remove syslog-nagios-bridge
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge syslog-nagios-bridge
Remove syslog-nagios-bridge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove syslog-nagios-bridge
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge syslog-nagios-bridge
Dependencies
syslog-nagios-bridge have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-nagios-bridge
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.