Back when Tiger patrolled the Mac universe, I wrote about installing Nagios 2.X on Mac OS X 10.4 Server. Nagios is an open-source application that is really more of a network monitoring framework. It ...

Nagios, called NetSaint in its early versions, is a best of class, industry standard, open source (yes, free!) and fully extendable tool for monitoring networks. With surprising little effort, you can ...

When I started with the John Deere Agricultural Marketing Center, we had 12 sites around the US and Canada. These locations had a mixture of equipment, older servers and desktops providing all ...

Like many network administrators, I use Nagios to monitor my network. Nagios is an open-source network monitoring system that uses SNMP, Perl, and other languages to monitor your network, with a Web ...

Nagios is by far one of the best solutions for monitoring just about everything on a server, and it’s excellent API system means that anything it doesn’t include out of the box can be written in just ...

I want to get my Nagios server running checks against other servers for which it will need local access. To do this I installed and configured NRPE on the Nagios client. It seemed to be working, so I ...

The free and open-source network monitoring software Nagios Core has a long and strong reputation, providing the base for other monitoring suites – Icinga, Naemon and OP5 among them – and a history ...

I've tried the 1.3 rpm for my distribution (mandrake 10.1), the 2.0 rpm and compiling it myself. I never get any errors, but it never seems to create the directories where I'm supposed to find them. I ...