Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install centreon-engine
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is centreon-engine
centreon-engine is:
Centreon is a modular and flexible platform for network, system and
applicative supervision and monitoring.
- monitoring of network services
- monitoring of host resources
- simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own
service checks - parallelized service checks
- ability to define network hierarchies
- contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get
resolved (via email, page, or user-defined method) - ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host
events for proactive problem resolution - automatic log file rotation
- support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
This package contains the engine.
There are three methods to install centreon-engine
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install centreon-engine Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install centreon-engine
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install centreon-engine
Install centreon-engine Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install centreon-engine
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install centreon-engine
Install centreon-engine 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 centreon-engine
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install centreon-engine
How To Uninstall centreon-engine on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the centreon-engine
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove centreon-engine
Uninstall centreon-engine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall centreon-engine
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove centreon-engine
Remove centreon-engine Configurations and Data
To remove centreon-engine
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge centreon-engine
Remove centreon-engine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove centreon-engine
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge centreon-engine
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install centreon-engine
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.