Download Nagios 3.0a5

With the program Nagios you can monitor different parts of your network and services on your servers. Among other things, it can check for smtp, pop3, http and nntp services, and host resources such as processor load and disk usage. When something happens that you want to be kept informed about, you can set different notifications that can then be delivered by mail or pager. The program can easily be expanded to your own liking by using the existing plugin structure. For more information, we refer you to this page and a bunch of screenshots are up this page to watch. The developers have already released the fifth alpha version of Nagios 3.0 and provided the following changes:

Version 3.0a5:

• Fixed problem with multiline long plugin output and Perl plugin output
• Fixed compilation problem with embedded Perl
• More debug/trace log functionality
• Added new ‘passive_host_checks_are_soft’ config option
• Fixed bug with host notifications occurring during soft host states
• Fixed bug in processing multiple check results contained in a single file
• Expanded timeperiod definitions to allow for day/date exceptions
• Changes to sample config files and installation location
• Changed debug file format to include current pid
• Added ‘initial_state’ option to host and service definitions to allow for non-UP/OK initial states
• Minor changes to freshness threshold calculation
• Documentation updates