Nagios Network Monitoring Software

Nagios is the leader in system, network, and application monitoring. Nagios is widely recognized as one of the best monitoring applications on the market. It got many awards and Nagios is free!

Let’s see what Nagios offers:

1. It can monitor Windows, Linux/Unix, Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Printers, Services, Applications.
2. You may receive immediate notifications of problems via email, pager and cellphone.
3. Acknowledge problems through the web interface.
4. Automatically restart failed applications, services and hosts with event handlers.
5. Schedule downtime for anticipated host, service, and network upgrades.
6. Multiple users can access the web interface.
7. Trouble ticket systems.
8. Over 200 community addons are available to enhance Nagios.

Nagios is the open source software, You will get full access to source code.

It was written many books about Nagios (you may find them at Amazon or download for free, please google it). And there are detailed instructions how to install. So you may try it by your own.

And as it was told there were a lot of addons and plugins for Nagios network monitoring system to enhonce it.

I’ve done a description of 2 network montioring tools and software. So concider to leave a comments about those network monitoring services. Thanks.

Network Monitoring Introduction

So, what is network monitoring and why do i need this service?

Network monitoring term describes any agent which can access your website, script or protocol and can analyze if it is working or not. Usually it is a custom script agent (bot) which checks your network monitoring status automatically from different locations and with exact time interval. Then this agen collect some data and test your network or website for many parametres: loading, stress test, uptime, ping etc.

So i hope you got it

Then, why it is so important to have such a service? You’ve probably noticed that not all the hosting companies offer reall 100% uptime. Or server overloading can influence on your website loading. Then you need to be in touch of this troubles. When server is down your online business is down too, there are no customers, no transactions, no profit. And to be notified of such “bad” situation you need network monitoring agent. By using network monitoring service you may look after your website’s uptime, script response and etc. You will be notified by different methods: email, sms, phone call etc. This is very important to have such alerts, so you may return your server back quickly and not to lose your potential customers.

Next few posts i will describe some powerfull network monitoring softwares and online services you may use to monitor your network.