Nagios was highlighted in an article by IT Central Station of Network World titled, “What IT Admins Love/Hate About 8 Top Network Monitoring Tools”.
Network monitoring systems typically look for slow, overloaded, failing or crashed servers, routers, switches and network connections – and alert network administrators to the problem. According to the IT Central Station user community, the most important criteria to consider when choosing network monitoring software are scalability, flexibility and multi-tenancy.