Argus is a systems and network monitoring application. It is designed to monitor the status of

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s, and other

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. It will send alerts when it detects problems. It is

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originally written entirely in

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, but nowadays in Go, and provides a web based interface.

Overview

* Can monitor most network services. * Supports both

IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP). It is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet and other packet-switched networks. IPv4 was the first version de ...

and

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* 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.

Details

* Monitoring of network services (

SMTP The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients typical ...

POP3 In computing, the Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. POP version 3 (POP3) is the version in common use, and along with IMAP the most common p ...

HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, ...

NNTP The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (''netnews'') between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications. Brian Kantor of the Univers ...

, ICMP,

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behaviour. Devices that typically ...

FTP The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network. FTP is built on a client–server model architecture using separate control and data ...

Telnet Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control i ...

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, NFS,

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, SIP,

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, LPD, NTP) * Monitoring of server resources: system load, network load, and disk usage, using an agent. * Monitoring of the results of any command or script. * Monitoring is easily extendable through user-written scripts.

External links

argus.tcp4me.com

github.com/jaw0/argus
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