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Leo leaned back in his chair. He felt lighter. The frantic red alerts, the sluggish interface, the nagging dread of an unsupported, decaying system—all of it was gone. He had not just uninstalled a program. He had exorcised a ghost.
Observium requires several packages to run, including PHP modules, Fping, Graphviz, and Net-SNMP. If you are not using these packages for any other application on your Ubuntu server, you can safely remove them.
Note: If you installed Observium in a different location (e.g., /var/www/html/observium ), adjust the path in the command above. uninstall observium ubuntu
To uninstall Observium from Ubuntu, you must manually remove its installation directory, database, and scheduled tasks, as it is typically installed from source rather than via a standard package manager.
sudo apt-get purge fping rrdtool graphviz snmp snmpd mtr-tiny whois rsnmp php-snmp php-gd php-mysql php-pear Use code with caution. Leo leaned back in his chair
To ensure Observium has been entirely scrubbed from your Ubuntu machine, run these quick validation checks:
He opened his old notes. The installation path was /opt/observium . The web root had a symlink: /var/www/html/observium . The database was called observium_db . The cron job ran poller.php every five minutes. It was a mess of his own making. He had not just uninstalled a program
Log files generated by Observium can accumulate over time. Remove them if they're no longer needed:
sudo systemctl stop observium sudo systemctl disable observium sudo systemctl stop apache2 php7.4-fpm