Nagios, called NetSaint in its early versions, is a best of class, industry standard, open source (yes, free!) and fully extendable tool for monitoring networks. With surprising little effort, you can ...

Network monitors are an absolute must-have for any network administrator. But which tool, out of the thousands, should you consider for your tool kit? Jack Wallen offers up his five favorites. Your ...

In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don’t know what your ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

As networking continues to expand and diversify, encompassing a growing number of wired and wireless devices, the demand for network monitoring tools remains high. While feature-packed commercial ...

A fork of the Nagios network monitoring tool called Icinga has officially launched, with the first stable version due October 28. Matt Asay says this illustrates the health of the open source movement ...

With businesses moving to the cloud at an ever-accelerating pace, as well as adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, network monitoring software has become one of the most important tools in the ...

Icinga's management software is well-documented, easy to install and has plenty of plug-ins, but could benefit from an easier install Continuing our quest for robust, enterprise-grade open source ...