Home / server / Questions / 887651
In Process
giomanda
Asked: 2017-12-13 00:26:31 +0800 CST

difference of nagios-plugins and nagios-plugins-all rpm packages

  • 772

I am a bit confused as to the purpose of those two rpm packages installed from epel repository. As far as i can see , nagios-plugins package just installs a few scripts:

/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/negate
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/urlize
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/utils.sh
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/CODING
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/LEGAL
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/README
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/REQUIREMENTS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/SUPPORT
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-2.2.1/THANKS
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/nagios-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nagios-plugins.mo

And the package nagios-plugins-all contains the actual plugins:

Installing for dependencies:
 nagios-plugins                         x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel               251 k
 nagios-plugins-breeze                  x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                18 k
 nagios-plugins-by_ssh                  x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                44 k
 nagios-plugins-cluster                 x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                37 k
 nagios-plugins-dhcp                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                44 k
 nagios-plugins-dig                     x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                44 k
 nagios-plugins-disk                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                45 k
 nagios-plugins-disk_smb                x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                21 k
 nagios-plugins-dns                     x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                45 k
 nagios-plugins-dummy                   x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                33 k
 nagios-plugins-file_age                x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                19 k
 nagios-plugins-flexlm                  x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                20 k
 nagios-plugins-fping                   x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                43 k
 nagios-plugins-game                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                39 k
 nagios-plugins-hpjd                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                42 k
 nagios-plugins-http                    x86_64               2.2.1-4git.el7                 epel                60 k
 nagios-plugins-icmp                    x86_64

What is the purpose of nagios-plugins package and utils.sh ?
Why two separate packages?

rpm

1 Answers

  1. Think of nagios-plugins like the foundation. There are a lot of nagios-plugins-*. the all package installs them all but you can hand pick certain ones.

    Now the main nagios-plugins setups up the foundation like the dir structure and commonly used files like the ones you have shown. If each of the nagios-plugins-* installed those files they would fight with each other and life wouldn't be fun.

    • 2