What is Nagios?
{{Infobox Software | name = Nagios | logo = | author = Ethan Galstad | developer = | released = May 10, 2002 | latest release version = 3.2.3 | latest release date = [[October 3]], [[2010]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nagios.org/projects/nagios-core/history/3x/|title=Nagios Core 3.x Version History|publisher=}}</ref> | operating system = [[Unix-like]] | platform = | language = | genre = [[Network monitoring]] | license = [[GNU General Public License]] | website = [http://www.nagios.org/ www.nagios.org] }} '''Nagios''' ({{IPAEng|ˈnɑːdʒioʊs}}) is a popular [[open source]] [[computer system]] and [[network monitoring]] [[application software]]. It watches [[node (networking)|host]]s 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 [http://www.netsaint.org NetSaint] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509094628/http://www.netsaint.org/ |date=2008-05-09 }}, was written and is currently maintained by Ethan Galstad, along with a group of [[Software developer|developer]]s actively maintaining both official and unofficial [[plugin]]s. 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]]. == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == *[http://www.nagios.org Official website] *[http://support.nagios.com/ Nagios support forums] *[http://nagios.com/ Nagios Company website] {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Network management]]