Nagios
Nagios (how to say: /ˈnɑːdʒioʊs/) is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring application software. It watches hosts and services which the owner specifies, alerting the owner when things go bad and again when they get better.
| Original author(s) | Ethan Galstad |
|---|---|
| Initial release | May 10, 2002 |
| Stable release | 3.2.3 / October 3, 2010[1] |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Network monitoring |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www.nagios.org |
Nagios, originally created under the name NetSaint Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, was written and is currently maintained by Ethan Galstad, along with a group of developers actively maintaining both official and unofficial plugins.
Nagios was originally designed to run under Linux, but also runs well on other Unix variants.
Nagios is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
