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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:29:08 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Thursday, October 6, 2005 5:05:36 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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[Nagios® | http://www.nagios.org/] is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the [Linux] OperatingSystem, but works fine under most [Unix] variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways ([Email], [IM], [SMS], etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a WebBrowser.
-It used to go by the name NetSaint but has recently changed to Nagios
+It used to go by the name ~
NetSaint.
* Monitoring of network services ([SMTP], [POP3], [HTTP], [NNTP], Ping, etc.)
* Monitoring of host resources ([CPU] load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.)
* Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own host and service checks
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* Web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.
* Simple authorization scheme that allows you restrict what users can see and do from the web interface
* Generates pretty network status maps
-[Nagios] has many features that NetSaint lacks but the most important one is that it allows you to configure it using template based configuration files, This simplifies the configuration hugely and reduces the chance of mistakes. Your config for a server goes from this:''''
+[Nagios] has many features that ~
NetSaint lacks but the most important one is that it allows you to configure it using template based configuration files, This simplifies the configuration hugely and reduces the chance of mistakes. Your config for a server goes from this:''''
<verbatim>
host[gatekeeper]=Gatekeeper (Main Cloverly Server);10.230.1.1;;check-host-alive;5;60;24x7;1;1;1;
</verbatim>
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Some downsides that I have encountered so far:
* Very basic authentication method -- [Apache] htaccess files, does not integrate well with existing authentication systems
* The notifications take some setting up to ensure that you do not get flooded with [Email].
-* Not yet in [Debian] stable/testing, only in unstable ''~RemoveFromMe: is that still true? --AristotlePagaltzis''
!! Screenshot
[http://images.freshmeat.net/screenshots/27961.png]
Courtesy of FreshMeat. See also [the official screenshots | http://www.nagios.org/screenshot.php].
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+!! Cool things built on Nagios
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+[GroundWork Open Source|http://www.groundworkopensource.com] is a full web-controllable monitoring suite, built on top of Nagios.
