nagios(8)
NAME
nagios - host/service/network monitoring program
SYNOPSIS
nagios [-h | -v] <main config file>
DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents briefly the nagios, command.
- This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribu
- tion because the original program does not have a manual page.
- nagios Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring pro
- gram. It has the following features:
- · 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 re
- solved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
- · Ability to define event handlers to be run during ser
- vice 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 un
- derstand and modify to fit your own needs.
- On Debian systems it should be automatically started at
- boot time, and can be controlled manually by the
- /etc/init.d/nagios script.
- To view the web front-end, point your browser at
- http://localhost/nagios/
OPTIONS
- -d Starts Nagios in daemon mode (instead of as a fore
- ground process)
- -s Starts Nagios, prints out service check scheduling
- information and immediately shuts down before starting to monitor
- anything. Note: Do NOT use this option while Nagios is running!
- -v Verify information in the configuration files. Na
- gios will *not* start monitoring any hosts when this option is
- supplied.
- Note: In order to start monitoring, you must supply the
- main configuration file as the only command line option.
FILES
/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg - main configuration file
/etc/nagios/hosts.cfg - monitoring configuration file
BUGS
- Nagios is still an immature program, so there are bound to
- be a lot of bugs in it. The current list of known issues and bugs
- can be found at http://www.nagios.org/bugs.php
SEE ALSO
- The online documentation at http://www.nagios.org/ and al
- so the documentation installed with the system, which on Debian
- systems is installed in /usr/share/nagios/docs.
AUTHOR
- This manual page was written by Ben Bell <bjb@debian.org>,
- for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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