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== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
System update | |||
sudo yum update | sudo yum update | ||
Install package | |||
sudo yum install nagios | sudo yum install nagios | ||
Package description | |||
$ yum info nagios | $ yum info nagios | ||
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper | Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper | ||
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: This package provides the core program, web interface, and documentation | : This package provides the core program, web interface, and documentation | ||
: files for Nagios. Development files are built as a separate package. | : files for Nagios. Development files are built as a separate package. | ||
List available packages | |||
yum list available | less | yum list available | less | ||
yum list available | grep package | yum list available | grep package | ||
Revision as of 13:40, 2 February 2014
Yum
It it a default package management in the following and many other RPM-based Linux distributions:
- Amazon Linux AMI
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Fedora
- CentOS
Usage
System update
sudo yum update
Install package
sudo yum install nagios
Package description
$ yum info nagios Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper Installed Packages Name : nagios Arch : x86_64 Version : 3.5.1 Release : 1.6.amzn1 Size : 5.3 M Repo : installed From repo : amzn-main Summary : Nagios monitors hosts and services and yells if somethings breaks URL : http://www.nagios.org/ License : GPLv2 Description : Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your : network. It has the ability to send email or page alerts when a : problem arises and when a problem is resolved. Nagios is written : in C and is designed to run under Linux (and some other *NIX : variants) as a background 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. The plugins are : available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug. : : This package provides the core program, web interface, and documentation : files for Nagios. Development files are built as a separate package.
List available packages
yum list available | less yum list available | grep package