How to Install and Uninstall monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: November 23,2024

1. Install "monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles on Kali Linux


    
        
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2. Uninstall "monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles package on Kali Linux

Package: monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles
Version: 4.1.1-3
Installed-Size: 253
Maintainer: Debian Nagios Maintainer Group
Architecture: all
Depends: perl:any
Enhances: monitoring-plugins
Size: 61524
SHA256: e31e7cedb1c35cf887cecdda05148dd6324608ee38734aa07daee7f0282fce76
SHA1: 8169b0718f9888f5827ea79a88a5db67c7588948
MD5sum: da78963d9cb9e79e63534d19b3ea1ba2
Description: Nagios plugin check_logfiles
check_logfiles: Plugin for Nagios which scans log files for specific patterns.
Features:
- Detection of rotations - usually nightly logfiles are rotated and
compressed. Each operating system or company has it’s own naming
scheme. If this rotation is done between two runs of check_logfiles
also the rotated archive has to be scanned to avoid gaps. The most
common rotation schemes are predefined but you can describe any
strategy (shortly: where and under which name is a logfile
archived).
- More than one pattern can be defined which again can be classified
as warning patterns and critical patterns.
- Triggered actions - Usually nagios plugins return just an exit code
and a line of text, describing the result of the check. Sometimes,
however, you want to run some code during the scan every time you
got a hit. Check_logfiles lets you call scripts either after every
hit or at the beginning or the end of it’s runtime.
- Exceptions - If a pattern matches, the matched line could be a very
special case which should not be counted as an error. You can
define exception patterns which are more specific versions of your
critical/warning patterns. Such a match would then cancel an alert.
- Thresholds - You can define the number of matching lines which are
necessary to activate an alert.
- Protocol - The matching lines can be written to a protocol file the
name of which will be included in the plugin’s output.
- Macros - Pattern definitions and logfile names may contain macros,
which are resolved at runtime.
- Performance data - The number of lines scanned and the number of
warnings/criticals is output.
- Windows - The plugin works with Unix as well as with Windows
(e.g. with ActiveState Perl).
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://labs.consol.de/nagios/check_logfiles/
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles/monitoring-plugins-check-logfiles_4.1.1-3_all.deb