The powerful Nagios network monitoring platform lets you supercharge its capabilities with a host of available plugins. If you can’t find a plugin to do just what you need, you can easily write your ...

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 ...

Monitoring the performance of Linux systems is a critical task for administrators aiming to ensure reliability, efficiency, and security. When it comes to robust and scalable monitoring, Nagios ...

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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 ...

In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don’t know what your ...

A fork of the Nagios network monitoring tool called Icinga has officially launched, with the first stable version due October 28. Matt Asay says this illustrates the health of the open source movement ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...