Unable to install nagios-plugin-for-ibm-i

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balaji.sankaran
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Unable to install nagios-plugin-for-ibm-i

Post by balaji.sankaran »

Hi All,

I am trying to install nagios-plugin-for-ibm-i. I used to below command to download the plugin for IBM i.

cd /tmp
wget https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/ibm ... 620.tar.gz

As per below IBM document I tried to extract the file however ended up with error.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/setti ... plug-ibm-i

#tar -xvf nagios-plugin-for-ibm-i_20190620.tar.gz /usr/local/nagios/
tar: /usr/local/nagios: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors


Regards,
Balaji Sankaran
kg2857
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Re: Unable to install nagios-plugin-for-ibm-i

Post by kg2857 »

If you read the error message, you'll find that you're trying to extract /usr/local/nagios/, which can't be done.
cd to that dir and extract the tar.
balaji.sankaran
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Re: Unable to install nagios-plugin-for-ibm-i

Post by balaji.sankaran »

Thanks finally managed to install.
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