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Argus (monitoring software)

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Stable release
  
3.7 / Feb. 2013

Written in
  
Perl

License
  
Artistic License

Development status
  
active

Operating system
  
Any Unix-like

Argus (monitoring software)

Type
  
Network management system

Argus is a systems and network monitoring application. It is designed to monitor the status of network services, servers, and other network hardware. It will send alerts when it detects problems.

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It is open-source software written entirely in Perl, and provides a web based interface.

Overview

  • Can monitor most network services.
  • Supports both IPv4 and IPv6
  • Includes graphing.
  • Web based front end.
  • Can monitor tens-of-thousands of services on common PC hardware.
  • Supports distributed and redundant configurations.
  • Configured using simple text files.

    • Details

  • Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, ICMP, SNMP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, Gopher, NFS, DNS, Radius, IAX2, SIP, SunRPC, Whois, Rwhois, LPD, NTP)
  • Monitoring of server resources: system load, network load, and disk usage, using an agent.
  • Monitoring of the results of any command or script.
  • Monitoring is easily extendable through user-written scripts.

    • References

    Argus (monitoring software) Wikipedia
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