nagios3(8)

nagios38

Network/systems status monitoring daemon

Usage

nagios3 [-h] [-v] [-s] [-d] <main_config_file>

Overview

nagios3 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 debian systems this defaults to /etc/nagios3/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.

-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

Default configuration directory for nagios3
/etc/nagios3

Releases

4 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0–8

-d since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

Author

nagios3 is written and maintained by Ethan Galstad <[email protected]>. This manual page was written by sean finney <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (but it may be freely used, modified, and redistributed by others).

From nagios3-core 3.5.1.dfsg-2+b1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.