Naemon
{{Short description|Open-Source Computer System Monitoring Software}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Naemon
| logo =
| screenshot = Naemon.JPG
| caption = Screenshot of the Naemon homepage
| author = Andreas Ericsson
| developer =
| released = March 29, 2015
| latest release version = 1.4.2
| latest release date = January 4, 2024
| operating system = Cross-platform
| platform =
| language = C
| genre = Network monitoring
| license = [https://github.com/naemon/naemon-core/blob/master/COPYING GPLv2]
| website = [https://www.naemon.io www.naemon.io]{{Cite web|url=http://www.naemon.io/project/2022/11/11/release-1.4.0.html|title = Naemon - Release 1.4.0|access-date=2022-11-22}}
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Naemon is an open-source computer system monitoring, network monitoring and infrastructure monitoring software application. Naemon offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications, and services. It alerts the users when things go wrong and alerts them a second time when the problem has been resolved. Naemon was created in 2014 as a fork of Nagios.{{Cite web|url=https://www.naemon.io/project.html|title=Naemon - The project|website=www.naemon.io|language=en|access-date=2018-03-06|quote=Why yet another fork? [..] we no longer feel welcome in the Nagios Core community [..] continue what started in Nagios 4.}}{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/naemon/naemon-core/blob/53d9f23d8f7ea5e21a06266bb610127a1f49c6a5/NEWS|title=naemon/naemon-core|last=Sonefors|first=Robin|date=Jan 29, 2014|website=GitHub|language=en|access-date=2018-03-06|quote=Based on nagios 4.0.2.}}
It is available for Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE, Debian and Ubuntu Linux distribution.{{Cite web|url=http://www.naemon.io/download/|title = Naemon - Downloads}}
Overview
Naemon is open source software licensed under the GNU GPL V2. It provides:
- Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.).
- Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.).
- A simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks.
- Parallelized service checks.
- Thruk Monitoring Webinterface.
- The ability to define network host hierarchies using 'parent' hosts, allowing the detection of and distinction between hosts that are down or unreachable.
- Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via e-mail, pager, or any user-defined method through plugin system).
- The ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
- Automatic log file rotation
- Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
See also
{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
- Comparison of network monitoring systems
- Nagios
- Icinga – Another Nagios fork
- Shinken (software) – Another Nagios fork
References
External links
- [https://www.naemon.io Official Naemon website]
Category:Internet Protocol based network software
Category:Free network management software