Nagios Core - Features

The Industry Standard in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Nagios® is the leader and industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring solutions. It serves the needs of thousands of organizations
in both horizontal and vertical markets by enabling them to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical
business processes. With its flexibly design architecture, Nagios Core is able to monitor virtually any IT infrastructure component.

Features System Requirements

Network Monitoring Reporting Server Operating System

• TCP/UDP • SLA availability reports • Linux: All major 2.4+ kernel Linux
• SMTP • Alert and notification history distributions, including:
• POP3 • Trending reports with RRD-based addons ◦ RHEL
• IMAP
◦ SLES
• HTTP(S) Notifications
• FTP ◦ Ubuntu
• SSH • Email ◦ Fedora
• DNS • SMS ◦ Debian
• DHCP • RSS ◦ CentOS
• Bandwidth • Jabber
• Port State • Custom script • Unix: Solaris 9+, FreeBSD 6.4+
• and more...
Remediation Capabilities
Server Hardware
Operating System Monitoring
• Acknowledge problems online
• Windows • 1 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM (minimum)
• Automatically restart failed applications,
• Linux services, and devices with event handlers • 2 GHz+ CPU, 1 GB+ RAM (recommended)
• Unix
Helpdesk and Trouble Ticket Integration Server Storage
Hardware Monitoring
• RT • 512 MB free space (minimum)
• Routers • OTRS • 2 GB free space (recommended)
• Switches • TOPdesk
• Firewalls • Unicenter Service Desk Browsers
• Servers
• Workstations Customizable Code • Firefox 2.0+
• Printers
• Internet Explorer 5.5+
• UPSes • Open Source Software
• Environmental Devices • Safari 2.0+
• Full access to source code
• Released under the GPL license
Application Monitoring Client Operating Systems
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• Apache/IIS • Windows: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista,
• Exchange • Multi-tenant/multi-user capabilities 2007
• JBOSS • Notification escalations
• SAP • Scheduled downtime • Linux/Unix: 2.4+ kernel Linux
• and more... distributions, Solaris 9+ , FreeBSD 6.4+,
AIX 5.2/5.3

More Information
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Revision 1.1 – October, 2009