Nagios: the industry standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
250.000 users worldwide won´t be wrong
Nagios is an Open Source monitoring solution, capable of managing also extended IT infrastructures without having to invest highest efforts for the installation and the daily operations. Ethan Galstad, mastermind behind the solution, who published his first Nagios version (still named NetSaint at that time) at the University of Minnesota in 1999, seemed to be pathfinder of a true wave of success. He is considered to be originator and leading developer of a meanwhile globally used monitoring solution with a user base of more than 250.000 people. And not by case InfoWorld has named Nagios among the Best of Open Source Software Award winners for the second year in a row.
Nagios, the “holy network”
The main aim of using Nagios is achieving the highest possible system availability for your entire IT environment. Nagios includes functionalities to proactively take measures of your actual system performance and to prevent service interruptions. If a possible violation of the required quality standards becomes apparent, your IT staff gets immediately notified. With it you have the chance to avoid serious quality problems before these occur.
- What is Nagios: Take a look at Wikipedia
- Get more information on the Nagios Enterprise Portal
- Read an interview with Nagios founder Ethan Galstad held few months ago
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