Package: nagios3 (3.5.1.dfsg-2.1ubuntu8)

host/service/network monitoring and management system

Nagios is a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and networks.

Nagios' features include:

 *  Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP,
    PING, etc.)
 *  Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks
 *  Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email,
    pager, or user-defined method)
 *  Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events
    (for proactive problem resolution)
 *  Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.)

Nagios was written in C and is designed to be easy to understand and modify to fit your own needs.

This is a metapackage which depends on the nagios core and the webfrontend

This package is the new version 3.x series of nagios, which replaced the 2.x versions.

Nagios is a replacement of the Netsaint project. It accepts and uses the previous Netsaint modules transparently.

Upstream URL: http://www.nagios.org/