Nagios Named 2018 “Network Monitoring Application of the Year” from LinuxQuestions.org

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The polls have closed and the results are in. For the 12th consecutive year, Nagios has been voted the Network Monitoring Application of the Year. 52.54% of the total votes for Network Monitoring Application of the Year went to Nagios products. Nagios has consistently proven functionality, flexibility, and value to thousands of companies and millions of users […]

Monitoring Public/Private/Virtual Clouds with Nagios

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From startups to large enterprises, cloud resources have rapidly become an industry standard based on the flexibility and scalability offered.  Terms like “Private Cloud”, “Public Cloud”, and “Virtual Cloud” all similarly refer to the ways in which data is hosted on distinct private address space. From a monitoring perspective, identifying this commonality is important.  In […]

Nagios Update: Core 4.4.3

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We’ve released Nagios Core 4.4.3 today, which should resolve some of the bugs left in 4.4. This version of Core will also be included as part of the upcoming XI 5.5.9 update. Some of the notable updates to Nagios Core include a resolution to memory leaks on reload.  An XSS vulnerability in the Alert Summary […]

Nagios Plugins 2.1.3 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team announces that nagios-plugins 2.1.3 has been released and is available for download. Fixes: Added SNI support in check_tcp Added support for -k for kerberos authentication in check_file_age now allows wildcard matching check_tcp.c: tools/build_perl_modules hardcodes the perl used Fix for check_game reporting ‘ping’ as number of players Fix some gcc5 warnings […]

Nagios Plugins 2.1.2 Released

The Nagios Plugins Development Team is proud to announce that nagios-plugins 2.1.2 has been released and is available for download. Enhancements: – check_snmp’s performance data now also includes warning/critical thresholds – New check_snmp “-N” option to specify SNMPv3 context name – New check_nt “-l” parameters: seconds|minutes|hours|days – New check_mailq -s option which tells the plugin […]

NRPE 3.0 release now available

NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) is an open-source project that allows you to remotely execute Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines. To download the latest release of NRPE: zip: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/archive/3.0.zip tar: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/archive/3.0.tar.gz The newest release incorporates a number of new features, including: Fixes for two security holes Improvements to signal handling, stabilizing the program Fixes […]