How To Install hobbit-plugins on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
4 minutes • 700 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hobbit-plugins on Ubuntu.
What is hobbit-plugins
hobbit-plugins is:
This package provides plugins for the Xymon network monitor. (Formerly called Hobbit.)
Included client plugins:
- apt - check for outstanding updates (uses aptitude and dctrl-tools if installed)
- backuppc - check for errors reported by BackupPC servers (needs backuppc and sudo)
- cciss - check hardware RAIDs in HP ProLiant servers (needs cciss-vol-status and sudo)
- cntrk - check the size of the Netfilter Connection Tracking table. (needs libfile-slurp-perl)
- dirtyetc - check for conffiles which are modified compared to Debian’s defaults but should not be (needs sudo and debsums, supports dphys-config)
- dirtyvcs - check for dirty VCS working copies (supports Git, Mercurial, Bzr and Subversion, needs appropriate VCS packages and libfile-which-perl installed)
- dnsq - checks for working DNS on clients (needs libnet-dns-perl and libfile-slurp-perl)
- entropy - check kernel entropy pool size
- ipmi - read IPMI sensors and event log (needs ipmitool)
- libs - check for running processes with upgraded libraries (needs binutils, lsof, sudo, libyaml-tiny-perl, libfile-slurp-perl and libsort-naturally-perl)
- mailman - checks the existence of Mailman shunt files and aged queue files. (needs sudo)
- mdstat - check for failed or resyncing RAID devices
- megaraid - check state of LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers (uses xynagios, see below, and additionally needs megaclisas-status from https://hwraid.le-vert.net/wiki/DebianPackages and sudo)
- mq - check (postfix’s) mail queue (needs libtimedate-perl)
- misc - meta plugin for running series of scripts (needs libipc-run-perl)
- net - check network interface states (needs libfile-which-perl, libfile-slurp-perl, libipc-run-perl, libyaml-tiny-perl, either iproute2 or net-tools and optionally ethtool).
- ntpq - check the ntpd daemon synchronization status (needs ntp)
- postgres - statistics graphs for PostgreSQL databases (needs libdbd-pg-perl)
- sftbnc - check if the local Postfix MTA has soft_bounce enabled.
- temp - simple temperature monitor (needs libfile-which-perl and libyaml-tiny-perl; depending on the hardware to monitor it optionally also needs hddtemp, smartmontools, libxml-twig-perl, nvidia-smi (non-free), sudo)
- yum - check for outstanding updates on RPM based distros (not usable on Debian and derivatives).
Included server plugins:
- aptdiff - monitor list of installed packages in host pools
- conn6 - check IPv6 connectivity (needs fping)
- ircbot - relay status changes to IRC (needs libpoe-component-irc-perl)
- pgbouncer - monitor pool usage and traffic
- tftp - checks TFTP servers by downloading a file from them (needs libnet-tftp-perl)
Helper software:
- Hobbit.pm: Perl module for writing plugins
- xynagios: adaptor for running Nagios plugins with Xymon (needs libipc-run-perl)
There are three methods to install hobbit-plugins on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hobbit-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hobbit-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hobbit-plugins
Install hobbit-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hobbit-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hobbit-plugins
Install hobbit-plugins 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 hobbit-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hobbit-plugins
How To Uninstall hobbit-plugins on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the hobbit-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hobbit-plugins
Uninstall hobbit-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hobbit-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hobbit-plugins
Remove hobbit-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove hobbit-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hobbit-plugins
Remove hobbit-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hobbit-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hobbit-plugins
Dependencies
hobbit-plugins have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hobbit-plugins package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.