iNag for iPhone An iPhone front-end for the Nagios network monitor
Posted on Jul 9, 2009 4:56 am by John C. Welch, Macworld.com Like many network administrators, I use Nagios to monitor my network. Nagios is an open-source network monitoring system that uses SNMP, Perl, and other languages to monitor your network, with a Web UI for viewing the current state of your network and the devices within. While Nagios has a simple HTML-based interface, it's rather kludgy to view on an iPhone. There have been some attempts to create a Web app front-end for the iPhone, but, up to this point, they've been overly complicated and tedious to set up. iNag, from John Fullington, is a native iPhone app that can talk to an existing Nagios system without a complicated setup. It does solid job of giving you the information you need in a clear, concise manner. It's not perfect, certainly, but it's not missing much. iNag costs $15 in the App Store, and in my use thus far, I've definitely gotten my money's worth. ... http://www.macworld.com/article/141459/article.html *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
