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= nagios =

== Availability and IPv6 support ==

|| '''Name''' || '''IPv6 support''' || '''Supported operating systems''' ||
|| [[http://www.nagios.org|nagios]] || included but mostly depend on plugins || Unix, Linux, [[http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=nagios|*BSD]] ||

== Description ==

Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform network operators about the network problems. The
monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external "plugins" which
return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to
administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status
information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser.


== Comments ==

The IPv6 support depends on several factors:
 * The information reporting via IPv6 is relying on an external webserver. If the webserver supports IPv6 the visualization part supports IPv6.
 * The check plugins has recently extended to support IPv6. Version 1.4 of plugins supports IPv6 service monitoring.


Tested and used in 6NET project.

== Usage information ==

== Categories ==

CategoryApps, CategoryAppstesting_and_monitoring

== Source of information ==

http://www.6net.org