Nagios is a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and
networks. nagios3-common contains the common files for the nagios3 package.
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Nagios' features include:
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o Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP,
PING, etc.)
o Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks
o Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email,
pager, or user-defined method)
o Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events
(for proactive problem resolution)
o Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.)
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Nagios is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit your own needs.
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This package is the new version 3.x series of nagios, which replaced
the 2.x versions.
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Nagios is a replacement of the Netsaint project. It accepts and uses the
previous Netsaint modules transparently.