How To Install send_nsca on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install nsca-client

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install nsca-client

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is send_nsca and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install send_nsca on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install send_nsca on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install send_nsca using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nsca-client

Install send_nsca on Fedora 34 using yum

Because send_nsca is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install send_nsca package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nsca-client

How to upgrade (update) a single package send_nsca using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like send_nsca in this example you should use the following command:

yum update nsca-client

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade nsca-client

How to Upgrade send_nsca on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update nsca-client

How To remove send_nsca from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the send_nsca package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove nsca-client

Extra info and code examples

This package contains only the client part of nsca and is thus suitable for installation on systems that only report passive service checks to a central server. Nagios is a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and networks. Nagios' features include: - Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.) - Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks - Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method) - Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events (for proactive problem resolution) - Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.) Nagios was written in C and is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit your own needs.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install send_nsca using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the send_nsca from Fedora 34.

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