[Package Request] NRPE, Nagios check plugins

[edwardvdv]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2022? Please describe and include package name.

Error: Unable to find a match: nrpe nagios-plugins-by_ssh nagios-plugins-dhcp nagios-plugins-dig nagios-plugins-disk nagios-plugins-dns nagios-plugins-dummy nagios-plugins-file_age nagios-plugins-http nagios-plugins-icmp nagios-plugins-ide_smart nagios-plugins-ldap nagios-plugins-load nagios-plugins-log nagios-plugins-mailq nagios-plugins-mysql nagios-plugins-nagios nagios-plugins-nt nagios-plugins-pgsql nagios-plugins-ping nagios-plugins-procs nagios-plugins-real nagios-plugins-rpc nagios-plugins-smtp nagios-plugins-snmp nagios-plugins-ssh nagios-plugins-swap nagios-plugins-tcp nagios-plugins-time nagios-plugins-ups nagios-plugins-users rkhunter

Is this an update to existing package or new package request? No.

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? Yes, through EPEL.

Number of users impacted Well me, and the company I work for, so thousands :-) ;-) If adding these package to AL2022 isn't possible, it'd be nice to have some kind of documentation to add for example the Fedora 34 repo to make this work. Something like this:

# Add Fedora 34 repo, but disable it by default so it's only used for one-off installs
» cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora34.repo
[fedora34]
name=Fedora 34 repository
baseurl=http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/34/Everything/x86_64/os/
priority=1
enabled=0
repo_gpgcheck=1
type=rpm
gpgcheck=1

# install GPG pubkey
» dnf update
» dnf -y --nogpgcheck --enablerepo=fedora34 install fedora-gpg-keys
» rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-34-x86_64

# install missing package
» dnf --enablerepo=fedora34 install nrpe

[elsaco]

@edwardvdv if you feel adventurous try Fedora Rawhide. You'll find Nagios and all dependencies in this repo, along with many other packages. So far I didn't encounter any issues adding RPMs from Rawhide. I'm not sure EPEL is beneficial to AL2022. Please keep in mind Rawhide is the bleeding edge Fedora repository.

[edwardvdv]

Thanks @elsaco. I agree EPEL won't help, that's for Enterprise (RHEL) derivatives only. I'll give Rawhide repo a try. Still it would be nice to get NRPE and Nagios as supported builds in the AL2022 repo. (Switching from an upstream enterprise OS to Fedora is a bit of a shock for most Sysadmins. The least Amazon can do is to prevent us from relying on third party or bleeding edge repos for common packages.)

[mbialozor]

Already commented in #367.

[stewartsmith]

I've removed "rootkit hunter" from the title of this issue as rkhunter and chkrootkit are both available in Amazon Linux 2023.