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Description |
| Nagios |
An open source computer system and network monitoring application software. It watches hosts and services that you specify and alerts you when there are errors and then when they are subsequently fixed. The services entail:
Monitoring of network services
Monitoring of host resources
Remote monitoring supported through SSH or SSL encrypted tunnels
Parallelized service checks
Ability to define network host hierarchy using parent hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved
Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
Automatic log file rotation
Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
Optional web interface for viewing current network status, notifications, problem history, log files, etc.
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