Monitor your network with Nagios, version 3.0 released in beta

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Monitor your network with Nagios, version 3.0 released in beta

by Grant Robertson (RSS feed) Jul 31st 2007 at 6:20PM

Nagios (formerly known as Netsaint) has just gone beta with it's 3.0 release. A daemon for Linux systems, Nagios is a full featured network monitoring and notification toolset which can work wonders for making uptime more effortless. Designed so that you're aware of faults before your users are, installing and configuring Nagios in your office environment can easily make you look like a wizard to the powers that be.

Tags: linux, network monitoring, NetworkMonitoring, networktools

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Peter said 8:39PM on 7-31-2007

"installing and configuring Nagios in your office environment can easily make you look like a wizard to the powers that be." - If you can actually get it installed and configured. It is a VERY complex piece of software and you need to be pretty proficient with Linux to get the install done.

John Kubala said 10:29PM on 7-31-2007

Peter,
Novell has an outstanding article on how to do it step by step at: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16723.html
You can't go wrong.

GeeDiddy said 8:37AM on 8-01-2007

Peter ... (kinda sales'y I know but) you could go with a service from TruePath http://www.truepathtechnologies.com/

They configure/manage the OpenSource software like Nagios for you! You get to use the tools/graphs and they manage the backend garbage. Not bad.

Peter said 6:45PM on 8-01-2007

John - Thanks for the tip. I actually went back to the Nagios site. I hadn't been there in a while and I now see that they have a new version and some decent install guides. I'll have to give it another try.

John Laur said 2:53PM on 8-02-2007

What's with the new trend of blogs doing everything they possibly can to keep readers on their own site? How the shit hard would it have been to put a link to http://www.nagios.org/ up there?

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