Information about the package, nagios-plugins, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nagios-plugins package is designed for, Host/service/network monitoring program plugins for Nagios.
Package Name:
nagios-plugins
Summary:
Host/service/network monitoring program plugins for Nagios
Description:
Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network, and to email or page you when a problem arises or is resolved. Nagios runs on a Unix server as a background or daemon process, intermittently running checks on various services that you specify. The actual service checks are performed by separate "plugin" programs which return the status of the checks to Nagios. This package contains those plugins.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2.1
Release:
4git.el6
Size:
260 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the nagios-plugins package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nagios-plugins
This command will install nagios-plugins on the server.
yum remove nagios-plugins
This command will un-install nagios-plugins on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nagios-plugins, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nagios-plugins
This command will un-install nagios-plugins 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 nagios-plugins when using the -y flag.
yum update nagios-plugins
This command will update nagios-plugins to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nagios-plugins, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nagios-plugins
This command will update nagios-plugins 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 nagios-plugins when using the -y flag.
yum info nagios-plugins
This command will show you core information about the nagios-plugins package.
yum deplist nagios-plugins
This command will show you the dependencies for nagios-plugins. 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 nagios-plugins
This command will check if there is an update waiting on nagios-plugins. 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.