How to Install and Uninstall monit Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 27,2024

1. Install "monit" package

This is a short guide on how to install monit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall monit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: monit
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:5.16-2ubuntu0.2
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sergey B Kirpichev
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 807
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.2~beta3), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13)
Suggests: exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent, sysvinit-core
Filename: pool/universe/m/monit/monit_5.16-2ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb
Size: 273374
MD5sum: 0bbf3d161a7d1f2f7275368045a9ba0d
SHA1: 9daeda15228edf1196a45c16d4d38fba15bd33db
SHA256: 8c86041b3f8bc91275a790104807a73fd5a0a19d648115f1cc8f18b3080d3120
SHA512: 4094b7558044cfb375d9199d102cd636dcd452b6f720587266018744c7cf4427c1593f12c1357d1ad19fdf0ddc806f9658866ba8a8808e3b7613f9fe7ccda7db
Homepage: http://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

Package: monit
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 807
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sergey B Kirpichev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:5.16-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.2~beta3), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13)
Suggests: exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent, sysvinit-core
Filename: pool/universe/m/monit/monit_5.16-2_amd64.deb
Size: 273034
MD5sum: c1136ea5cad4a827d357031873993e8e
SHA1: 0cc869e3e08ac557defde6f2b8a4edc00ba25d04
SHA256: 599cac5402e696225304b4a63ec8b3456f82c4da3499eaeb16c421e2ab6d4b59
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.
.
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
Homepage: http://mmonit.com/monit/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu