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Nagios
Original author(s) Ethan Galstad
Initial release May 10, 2002
Stable release
3.2.3 / October 3, 2010
Operating system Unix-like
Type Network monitoring
License GNU General Public License
Monitoring
Operating principle of Nagios

Nagios 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.

Nagios, originally created under the name NetSaint, 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.

See also

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