Why nagios

Time-tested and proven architecture make Nagios perfect for your network monitoring needs. Learn more. Open Source Community A huge community of supporters and contributors is what makes Nagios great.

With millions of users worldwide and thousands of plugins and addons, the Nagios Community is a strong asset for any support or development needs you might have. There are thousands of Nagios projects that can be used to build the perfect monitoring solution.

Learn more about our Nagios Pojects on the projects page. Nagios XI was designed with flexibility in mind which means that as your network infrastructure evolves, new hardware is brought on, or you want to monitor something unique to your environment, Nagios XI can monitor it. Thousands of custom plugins are available on the Nagios Exchange and XI easily integrates custom scripts to monitor everything from devices and databases, to temperature, humidity, and the physical environment. Nagios XI Use Cases.

For Managers. Capacity Planning Nagios XI allows management to see the efficiency of the current infrastructure making it clear when additional routers, hard drives, and other hardware upgrades will be necessary before it becomes a problem that affects the business.

For System Administrators. Monitor System Metrics Monitoring system metrics can be extremely valuable in order to keep your network running smoothly, or your website online. Usually, on a network, a Nagios server is running on a host, and plugins are running on all the remote hosts which should be monitored.

Nagios plugins provide low-level intelligence on how to monitor anything and everything with Nagios Core. Plugins operate acts as a standalone application, but they are designed to be executed by Nagios Core. It connects to Apache that is controlled by CGI to display the result.

Moreover, a database connected to Nagios to keep a log file. An interface of Nagios is used to display web pages generated by CGI. It can be buttons to green or red, sound, graph, etc. When the soft alert is raised many times, a hard alert is raised, then the Nagios server sends a notification to the administrator. Step 1 Subscribe to Nagios. Step 4 Do configuration. The University of St. Thomas University uses better data to improve purchasing decisions, bandwidth allocation, and reaction to anomalies.

Petrofac Energy solutions giant sees increased capabilities, productivity by deploying Nagios. Nagios XI Gain extended insight into your network with enterprise-class network monitoring, alerting, and analysis.

Learn More. Nagios Network Analyzer Network traffic, bandwidth monitoring, and flow analysis for your entire IT infrastructure. Nagios Log Server Get the most out of your data. Nagios Fusion Distributed network monitoring made easy. Ready to Try Nagios? Request a Demo.