Nagios Media Coverage

InfoWorld - Killer open source monitoring tools

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Paul Venezia gives Nagios a great review in his November 24, 2008 InfoWorld article "Killer open source monitoring tools".

Linux.com - Using external commands in Nagios

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Wojciech Kocjan writes about using external commands to do some neat things in his November 20, 2008 "Using external commands in Nagios" article for Linux.com.

Macworld - Setting up and using SNMPv3 on OS X

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

John C. Welch from Macworld mentions network monitoring with Nagios in an article titled "Setting up and using SNMPv3".

USENIX Magazine - iVoyeur: You Should Write a NEB Module

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

David Josephen covers how to write a Nagios Event Broker module in the October 2008 issue of USENIX Magazine.

InformationWeek - There's More To Open Source Net Management Apps Than Cost Savings

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Mike Fratto points to Nagios as a key vendor in a November 15, 2008 InformationWeek article "There's More To Open Source Net Management Apps Than Cost Savings ".

InformationWeek - The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Nagios gets a favorable mention in a November 15, 2008 "The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come " article in Information Week.

LinuxSecurity.com - A Secure Nagios Server

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Bill Keys from Linux Today has an article titled "A Secure Nagios Server", about running a secure Nagios server as well as securing remote agents.

LinuxDevices.com - Console servers ship with open-source UPS tools

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Linux Devices posted an article, "Console servers ship with open-source UPS tools" about Opengear's inclusion of Nagios into its hardware devices.

Zugschlusbeobachtungen - Nagios, Parent Hosts, and traceroute on the Internet

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Marc Haber posts a blog post titled "Nagios, Parent Hosts, and traceroute on the Internet", about the problems of dynamic routing on the Internet and integrating it in a Nagios monitoring setup.

Linux Journal - Custom Check and Notifications for Nagios

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Mike Diehl wrote an article on how to write a custom check and enhance notifications as an enhancement to his How to be a good (and lazy) System Administrator article.

Linux Journal - Use Nagios to Check Your Zypper

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Mitch Frazier has an interesting article titled "Use Nagios to Check Your Zypper", on using Nagios to check openSUSE package management using the zypper application.

InfoWorld - Best of Open Source in Networking

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is honored as being one of Infoworld's Best of Open Source Software ("BOSSIE") 2008 Award winners. Nagios won the "Server Monitoring" category as seen here. Full article linking to all the OSS winners can be found here.

SearchDataCenter.com - Use Nagios to trend and troubleshoot performance issues

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is discussed in Kyle Rankin's July 30, 2008 article for SearchDataCenter.com titled Use Nagios to trend and troubleshoot performance issues.

ServerWatch - All Eyes on the Internal Environment

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Check out this July 28, 2008 ServerWatch article by Drew Rob titled All Eyes on the Internal Environment . Nagios is being used by Wright Patterson Air Force Base to monitor air handlers, chillers, PDUs, and environmental sensors. Nagios officially enters the environment movement! :-)

ComputerWorld - Managing your net for next to nothing

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Denise Dubie mentions Nagios in a July 26, 2008 article for ComputerWorld titled "Managing your net for next to nothing"/.

Macworld - Installing Nagios on Mac OS X 10.5 Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

John Welch takes users through the steps of getting Nagios up and running on the latest version of OS X in his June 20, 2008 article for Macworld titled Installing Nagios on Mac OS X 10.5 Server

InfoWorld - Pimp my data center: Servprise

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

This article discusses Servprise's WebReboot products and mentions their Nagios integration capability.

SlashDot - R2-D2 Monitors Your Web Servers

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Slashdot covers the crazy R2-D2 / Nagios integration by Japanese Nagios enthrusiasts. Crazy stuff!

LinuxDevices.com - uClinux Console Servers Add Open Source UPS Mgmt

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

LinuxDevices.com covers Nagios integration with Opengear's hardware management components in a June 13, 2008 article titled uClinux Console Servers Add Open Source UPS Mgmt.

News Blaze - Opengear Adds Open Source Network UPS Tools to Range of Console Servers

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

News Blaze covers Opengear's integration of Nagios with its management hardware.

InternetNews.com - StumbleUpon Still Standing Under eBay

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

A June 6, 2008 article on InternetNews.com titled StumbleUpon Still Standing Under eBay mentions how Nagios is being used as part of its monitoring solution.

ComputerWorld - CTO Strategies: Greg Royal of Cistera Networks

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Jim Romeo interviews Greg Royal in a May 29th, 2008 article for ComputerWorld titled CTO Strategies: Greg Royal of Cistera Networks. Greg mentions that Nagios is used to monitor the enterprise network at Cistera.

TechWorld - Problems With Monitoring Virtual Infrastructure

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Edward Haletky mentions Nagios as one of the low-cost tools that can be used to monitor virtualized infrastructures in a May 16, 2008 article for TechWorld titled Problems With Monitoring Virtual Infrastructure.

Opengear - Opengear Adopts Nagios for Enterprise Grade Central Monitoring and Management

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Opengear has a press release about the integration of Nagios into their hardware systems.

Association For Learning Technology - In-source, out-source, open-source, right-source

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is mentioned in a May 6, 2008 Association For Learning Technology article titled In-source, out-source, open-source, right-source .

LinuxWorld.com - Open source management software breaks into the data center

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Jim Romeo talks about how OSS applications, including Nagios, help cut costs in data centers in his April 24, 2008 article for LinuxWorld.com titled Open source management software breaks into the data center.

ComputerWeekly - Open Source Software Security

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is mentioned as one of the tools that can help mitigate the risk of security problems in Open Source software in an April 18, 2008 ComputerWeekly.com article titled Open Source Software Security.

The 451 Group - Does your OS systems management got GPL?

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios gets a brief mention in Jay Lyman's article Does your OS systems management got GPL?, in which he discusses license types used by commercial OSS vendors.

SearchDataCenter.com - Best of Breed vs. Suite Approach in Systems Management

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

A March 26, 2008 article at SearchDataCenter.com titled Best of Breed vs. Suite Approach in Systems Management talks about best-of-breed individual applications trumping all-in-one suites. Nagios was chosen by Hologic Inc. as being one of the best-of-breed applications for network monitoring.

agilejava.com - JMX Nagios

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Wilfred Springer discusses options for monitoring Java apps with Nagios using JMX.

InformationWeek - Morphing Along With Amazon EC2

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

A March 19, 2008 article for InformationWeek titled Morphing Along With Amazon EC2 talks about Amazon's EC2 being used to create SaaS applications. Author Serdar Yegulalp interviews CEO and CTO of Morph Labs. Nagios, of course, monitors their app.

SearchDataCenter.com - Is Nagios Right For Your Data Center?

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Roger Rustad talks about Nagios and its capabilities in his March 19, 2008 article for SearchDataCenter.com titled Is Nagios Right For Your Data Center?.

Law.com Legal Technology - Software Promises No Longer a Pipe Dream

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is mentioned in a March 13, 2008 article for Law.com Legal Technology titled "Software Promises No Longer a Pipe Dream.

Linux Magazin - Nagios 3 Coverage

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The March, 2008 issue of Linux Magazin has a number of articles on monitoring and Nagios 3. Thanks to all the authors who contributed to the articles!

iX Magazine - Nagios in Version 3.0 freigegeben

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

iX magazine ran an article on Nagios 3 in their February, 2008 issue titled "Nagios in Version 3.0 freigegeben". Thanks for Brian Murphy for pointing this out.

LXer - LXer Weekly Roundup for 24-Feb-2008

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Scott Ruecker mentions Nagios as being one of the winners in the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners in his February, 24th, 2008 "LXer Weekly Roundup" article for LXer.

LinuxQuestions.org - Monitoring Application of the Year

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Nagios has been voted Monitoring Application of the Year for 2007 by LinuxQuestions.org! You can see the list of winners in all categories at the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners. Thanks to Jeremy, founder of LinuxQuestions.org for bringing this to our attention. And thanks to all those who voted and have made Nagios such a great success!

InformationWeek - Dawn of The App Aware Network

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A February 16, 2008 article for InformationWeek titled Dawn of The App Aware Network mentions how Nagios is being shipped on 3Com's router modules.

Macworld - Xcode: Apple

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

John C. Welch makes a brief mention of Nagios, and how to easily install it on Mac OSX in his February 7th, 2008 "Xcode: Apple's not-so-secret weapon" article for Macworld.

eWeek - 3Com Advances Open Networking Initiative

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Paula Musich mentions Nagios in an article about 3Coms advancing 3rd party opensource initiative.

Linux.com - PLN vendor says SaaS and OSS are a natural together

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Nagios is mentioned in Tina Gasperson's December 14, 2007 article for Linux.com titled PLN vendor says SaaS and OSS are a natural together. Arena Solutions is using Nagios to monitor their networks.

OpenXtra - Open Source Network Management Download Comparison

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios holds its own against other OSS NMS products - even venture-funded ones - as Jack Hughes shows in his Open Source Network Management Download Comparison blog entry.

Security Pro News - Stuff The Military-Industrial Complex Should Use

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

David Utter mentions Nagios in his October 15, 2007 article for Security Pro News titled "Stuff The Military-Industrial Complex Should Use".

Software Design - Nagios / Swatch / Cacti

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Koshikawa Yasunori and others write about Nagios, as well as Swatch and Cacti in the October issue of Software Design magazine. Magazine is primarily in Japanese.

Dr. Dobb's Portal - Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Kristy Westphal talks about Nagios and David Josephson's book "Building a Monitoring Intrastructure with Nagios" in a September 19, 2007 article for Dr. Dobb's Portal.

itp.net - Push To Start

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is mentioned in a September 13, 2007 article for itp.net titled "Push to start". The article discusses software that can be used for remote infrastructure management (RIM).

Processor - Downtime, What

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is mentioned in an August 31, 2007 article in Processor magazine titled "Downtime, What's That?". The article talks about how organizations can save a hefty chunk of change by using Open Source monitoring tools like Nagios and Cacti.

Enterprise Networking Planet - Your NMS: Time to Go Homebrew?

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is mentioned in Charlie Schluting's August 15, 2007 article for Enterprise Networking Planet titled "Your NMS: Time to Go Homebrew?".

Processor - Managing Your Network

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Nagis mentioned in the August 3rd, 2007 issue of Processor (Vol. 29, Issue 31) in an article titled "Managing Your Network: Tips To Help You Save Time & Money".

CIO Insight - Open Source Secrets

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400

Nagios is mentioned in Darrell Dunn's August 1st, 2007 "Open Source Secrets" article for CIO Insight. The Weather.com IT folks adopted various OSS apps for operations - including Nagios for monitoring.