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NAME

Nagios - network/systems status monitoring daemon

SYNOPSIS

nagios [-h] [-v] [-s] [-d] <main_config_file>

DESCRIPTION

nagios is a daemon program that monitors the status of various network accessible systems, devices, and more. For more information, please consult the online documentation available at http://www.nagios.org, or on your nagios server's web page.

OPTIONS

The main configuration file. On openSUSE systems this defaults to /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
A helpful usage message
Reads all data in the configuration files and performs a basic verification/sanity check. Always make sure you verify your config data before (re)starting Nagios. You can also use the Nagios init script to verify your configuration - try: rcnagios check_verbose
Shows projected/recommended check scheduling information based on the current data in the configuration files.
Starts Nagios in daemon mode (instead of as a foreground process).

FILES

/etc/nagios
Default configuration directory for nagios

AUTHOR

Nagios is written and maintained by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>. This manual page was written by sean finney <seanius@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (but it may be freely used, modified, and redistributed by others) and adapted by Lars Vogdt for openSUSE.

February 2006, May 2010 sean finney, Lars Vogdt