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Nagios

Nagios (formerly NetSaint) is a really good *NIX based system monitoring, alerting and reporting tool.

• Open source
• Plugin architecture; it looks like it is not that hard to write your own
• Good reporting
• Multiple forms of filtered alerting

It has pretty good documentation too. ONLamp.com has a decent article on installing Nagios.

Looks like it is a good tool to know.

1. One of my colleagues wrote: "You should also take a look at OpenNMS - http://www.opennms.org/ which is an open source network monitoring package that can do many of the same things as NetSaint, although it's more SNMP oriented than service oriented..."

   Posted by: Babu on September 10, 2002 10:20 AM