prometheus-snmp-generator command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

prometheus-snmp-generator: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prometheus-snmp-generator: command not found

Solutions to prometheus-snmp-generator: command not found

How To Fix prometheus-snmp-generator: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu prometheus-snmp-generator is provided by prometheus-snmp-exporter package.

prometheus-snmp-exporter is:

An exporter for Prometheus which exposes information gathered from Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for use by the Prometheus monitoring system.

There are two components - an exporter which does the actual scraping, and a generator which creates the configuration for use by the exporter.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install prometheus-snmp-exporter

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install prometheus-snmp-exporter.

sudo apt -y install prometheus-snmp-exporter

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install prometheus-snmp-exporter

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix prometheus-snmp-generator command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.