1 Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your
2 network. It has the ability to email or page you when a problem arises
3 and when it gets resolved. Nagios is written in C and is designed to
4 run under Linux, although it should work under most other *NIX variants.
5 It can run either as a normal process or as a daemon, intermittently
6 running checks on various services that you specify. The actual service
7 checks are performed by external "plugins" which return service
8 information to Nagios. Several CGI programs are included with Nagios
9 in order to allow you to view the current service status, history, etc.
12 This package provides the core nagios infrastructure and web pages.