Argus (monitoring software) explained

Argus
Latest Release Version:	3.7
Latest Release Date:	Feb. 2013
Programming Language:	Perl / Go
Operating System:	Any Unix-like
Genre:	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 services, servers, and other 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 (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.

See also

• Comparison of network monitoring systems

External links

• argus.tcp4me.com
• github.com/jaw0/argus