How To Install zabbix-frontend-php on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix-frontend-php on Kali Linux. zabbix-frontend-php is network monitoring solution - PHP front-end

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix-frontend-php on Kali Linux.

What is zabbix-frontend-php

zabbix-frontend-php is:

Zabbix is a server/client network monitoring system with many features. It can be used for:

  • high level monitoring of IT services;
  • centralized monitoring of your servers and applications;
  • monitoring of SNMP-enabled devices;
  • performance monitoring (process load, network activity, disk activity, memory usage, OS parameters etc.);
  • data visualization.

This package provides a web-browsable front-end to the Zabbix server, which can display graphs of the data collected from clients.

There are three methods to install zabbix-frontend-php 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 zabbix-frontend-php Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install zabbix-frontend-php using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install zabbix-frontend-php

Install zabbix-frontend-php Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install zabbix-frontend-php using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install zabbix-frontend-php

Install zabbix-frontend-php 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 zabbix-frontend-php using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zabbix-frontend-php

How To Uninstall zabbix-frontend-php on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the zabbix-frontend-php package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove zabbix-frontend-php

Uninstall zabbix-frontend-php And Its Dependencies

To uninstall zabbix-frontend-php and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zabbix-frontend-php

Remove zabbix-frontend-php Configurations and Data

To remove zabbix-frontend-php configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge zabbix-frontend-php

Remove zabbix-frontend-php configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove zabbix-frontend-php configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zabbix-frontend-php

Dependencies

zabbix-frontend-php have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zabbix-frontend-php package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.