How to Install and Uninstall hobbit-plugins Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "hobbit-plugins" package

Please follow the instructions below to install hobbit-plugins on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
    Copied


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt install
            
                        
                hobbit-plugins
            
                    
    
    Copied

2. Uninstall "hobbit-plugins" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall hobbit-plugins on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                hobbit-plugins
            
                    
    
    Copied


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
    Copied

3. Information about the hobbit-plugins package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: hobbit-plugins
Architecture: all
Version: 20201127
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Christoph Berg
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 320
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)
Depends: xymon-client (>= 4.3.17-2~)
Recommends: binutils, dctrl-tools, libfile-slurp-perl, libsort-naturally-perl, libyaml-tiny-perl, lsb-release, lsof, sudo (>= 1.7.2p1-1)
Suggests: apt-config-auto-update, bzr, cciss-vol-status, debsums, ethtool, fping, git, hddtemp, ipmitool, iproute2 | net-tools, libdbd-pg-perl, libfile-which-perl, libipc-run-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl, libnet-dns-perl, libnet-tftp-perl, libpoe-component-irc-perl, libpoe-component-sslify-perl, libtimedate-perl, libxml-twig-perl, megaclisas-status, mercurial, ntp, nvidia-smi, smartmontools, subversion
Enhances: aptitude, backuppc, dphys-config, mailman, postfix
Filename: pool/universe/h/hobbit-plugins/hobbit-plugins_20201127_all.deb
Size: 67576
MD5sum: 72f0be7b0d5d43344107af00ec461e39
SHA1: e4db52d7134501126e4bdfe25ddd68b8a4d28ee5
SHA256: a28490ba7eeb82bce7d84c5eb13bd6961ef70f0d45a4c23a55ee45e51841ba26
SHA512: f21f4c8b97ca7ac8b5852823980b5b2a85b883891674f2bad9f440655432807ebb11e096dd172a75b77a750a2d25347b8df77b76e6505b34ccea9dd05f19c104
Homepage: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/hobbit-plugins#readme
Description-en: plugins for the Xymon network monitor
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)
Description-md5: 2c6f2d39413070bd5502bf5ec886efb9