Argus (monitoring software)
Stable release | 3.7
/ Feb. 2013 |
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Written in | Network management system |
License | Artistic License 1.0 |
Website | http://argus.tcp4me.com/ |
Argus is a systems and network monitoring application. It is designed to monitor the status of
network hardware
. It will send alerts when it detects problems.
It is open-source software originally written entirely in Perl, but nowadays in Go, 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 ()
- 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.