How to Install and Uninstall monit Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "monit" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install monit on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                monit
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "monit" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall monit on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                monit
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the monit package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: monit
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:5.27.2-1
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sergey B Kirpichev
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 998
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.32), libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13)
Suggests: default-mta | postfix | mail-transport-agent, sysvinit-core
Filename: pool/universe/m/monit/monit_5.27.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 338000
MD5sum: e9ee073b1deb8bfe647c7efe40b0b7b2
SHA1: 0ac0cda62f05b74ed59ce97fa1cbb902a1e9c43c
SHA256: 3fd48afd246ae58098ad81eeba2e88e9815f66d25653fa0740e7da2613857a65
SHA512: 2f23325f2cd20b982baafdd67e10a1930fd1fe1c6da366c2a2d6573321202fad1840215457b218fa07a22f5559ecd7ba48837a03b570bfa220e4662c94a2612e
Homepage: https://mmonit.com/monit/
Description-en: utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs
monit is a utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar
programs running on a Unix system. It will start specified programs
if they are not running and restart programs not responding.
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monit supports:
* Daemon mode - poll programs at a specified interval
* Monitoring modes - active, passive or manual
* Start, stop and restart of programs
* Group and manage groups of programs
* Process dependency definition
* Logging to syslog or own logfile
* Configuration - comprehensive controlfile
* Runtime and TCP/IP port checking (tcp and udp)
* SSL support for port checking
* Unix domain socket checking
* Process status and process timeout
* Process cpu usage
* Process memory usage
* Process zombie check
* Check the systems load average
* Check a file or directory timestamp
* Alert, stop or restart a process based on its characteristics
* MD5 checksum for programs started and stopped by monit
* Alert notification for program timeout, restart, checksum, stop
resource and timestamp error
* Flexible and customizable email alert messages
* Protocol verification. HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, SSH, DWP,
LDAPv2 and LDAPv3
* An http interface with optional SSL support to make monit
accessible from a webbrowser
Description-md5: 2230ee5609e2789db9ac60b0d3fbac89