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¶

main_config_file

The main configuration file. On openSUSE systems this defaults to /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

-h

A helpful usage message

-v

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

-s

Shows projected/recommended check scheduling information based on the current data in the configuration files.

-d

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.