Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-ido-pgsql
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is icinga2-ido-pgsql
icinga2-ido-pgsql is:
Icinga 2 is a general-purpose monitoring application to fit the needs of
any size of network. Icinga 1.x was a Nagios fork; this new generation
has been rewritten from scratch in C++, with multi-threading and cluster
support.
Features:
- all standard features of Icinga and Nagios;
- much faster and more scalable than Icinga 1 and Nagios;
- new, more intuitive, template-based configuration format;
- monitoring services on ICMP (ping) or TCP ports (HTTP, NNTP, POP3,
SMTP, etc.) by executing checks (see monitoring-plugins*); - any small script following the Nagios plugin API can be used as a
check plugin; - notifications about alerts for any custom script (with examples);
- native support for Livestatus and Graphite.
This package provides the IDO module for the PostgreSQL database.
There are three methods to install icinga2-ido-pgsql
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 icinga2-ido-pgsql Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icinga2-ido-pgsql
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icinga2-ido-pgsql
Install icinga2-ido-pgsql Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icinga2-ido-pgsql
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icinga2-ido-pgsql
Install icinga2-ido-pgsql 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 icinga2-ido-pgsql
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icinga2-ido-pgsql
How To Uninstall icinga2-ido-pgsql on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the icinga2-ido-pgsql
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icinga2-ido-pgsql
Uninstall icinga2-ido-pgsql And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icinga2-ido-pgsql
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icinga2-ido-pgsql
Remove icinga2-ido-pgsql Configurations and Data
To remove icinga2-ido-pgsql
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icinga2-ido-pgsql
Remove icinga2-ido-pgsql configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icinga2-ido-pgsql
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icinga2-ido-pgsql
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icinga2-ido-pgsql
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.