How to Install and Uninstall hobbit-plugins Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "hobbit-plugins" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install hobbit-plugins on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                hobbit-plugins
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "hobbit-plugins" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall hobbit-plugins on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the hobbit-plugins package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: hobbit-plugins
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 298
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Christoph Berg
Architecture: all
Version: 20160122
Depends: xymon-client (>= 4.3.17-2~)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)
Recommends: binutils, dctrl-tools, libsort-naturally-perl, libyaml-tiny-perl, lsb-release, lsof, sudo (>= 1.7.2p1-1)
Suggests: bzr, cciss-vol-status, debsums, fping, git, hddtemp, ipmitool, libdbd-pg-perl, libfile-which-perl, libfile-slurp-perl, libipc-run-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl, libnet-dns-perl, libnet-tftp-perl, libpoe-component-irc-perl, libtimedate-perl, libxml-twig-perl, mercurial, ntp, nvidia-smi, smartctl, subversion
Filename: pool/universe/h/hobbit-plugins/hobbit-plugins_20160122_all.deb
Size: 60468
MD5sum: 254e5a0e36b5952fd3986568d60cb334
SHA1: a4ec860889d6e1be44c978425903c7eac3a41487
SHA256: e3f81e306d453d2bb135f893dceb9c17b4baaddc586a0c3c191582c93412b1f1
Description-en: plugins for the Xymon network monitor
This package provides plugins for the Xymon network monitor.
(Formerly called Hobbit.)
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Included client plugins:
* apt - check for outstanding updates
* 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, 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
* mq - check (postfix's) mail queue (needs libtimedate-perl)
* misc - meta plugin for running series of scripts (needs
libipc-run-perl)
* 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, smartctl, libxml-twig-perl, nvidia-smi (non-free),
sudo)
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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)
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Helper software:
* Hobbit.pm: Perl module for writing plugins
* xynagios: adaptor for running Nagios plugins with Xymon (needs
libipc-run-perl)
Description-md5: 1700e8b425d98fe9b0510afd69f4458f
Enhances: backuppc, dphys-config, mailman, postfix
Homepage: http://xymon.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu