Eyes on Your Network - Nagios on BSD

I have long wanted a Nagios installation to monitor our network happenings and keep me apprised of quirks and outages. I have used a smattering of utilities here and there, but most required that you sit right in front of them 24/7 and had limited configuration options. Nagios is the pocket battleship of monitoring applications and, of course, it doesn’t cost a penny.

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