check-mk-agent software package provides general purpose nagios-plugin for retrieving data, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install check-mk-agent
check-mk-agent is installed in your system.
Make ensure the check-mk-agent package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep check-mk-agent *
You will get with check-mk-agent package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | check-mk-agent |
| Version | 1.2.6p12-1 |
| Description | general purpose nagios-plugin for retrieving data |
| Sub Section | admin |