Argus (monitoring software)

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Argus
Latest release 3.5 / June 2007
Written in Perl
OS Any Unix-like
Development status active
Genre Network management system
License Artistic License
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 written entirely in Perl, and provides a web based interface.

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  • 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.

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