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munin


Information about the package, munin, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The munin package is designed for, Network-wide graphing framework (grapher/gatherer).


Package Name:

munin

Summary:

Network-wide graphing framework (grapher/gatherer)

Description:

Munin is a highly flexible and powerful solution used to create graphs of virtually everything imaginable throughout your network, while still maintaining a rattling ease of installation and configuration. This package contains the grapher/gatherer. You will only need one instance of it in your network. It will periodically poll all the nodes in your network it's aware of for data, which it in turn will use to create graphs and HTML pages, suitable for viewing with your graphical web browser of choice. Munin is written in Perl, and relies heavily on Tobi Oetiker's excellent RRDtool. Creaete a munin web user after installing: htpasswd -bc /etc/munin/munin-htpasswd MUNIN_WEB_USER PASSWORD

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

2.0.33

Release:

1.el6

Size:

201 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for munin


Control the munin package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install munin

This command will install munin on the server.

yum remove munin

This command will un-install munin on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove munin, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove munin

This command will un-install munin on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove munin when using the -y flag.

yum update munin

This command will update munin to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove munin, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update munin

This command will update munin to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove munin when using the -y flag.

yum info munin

This command will show you core information about the munin package.

yum deplist munin

This command will show you the dependencies for munin. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update munin

This command will check if there is an update waiting on munin. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.