Nagstamon: A Nagios status monitor for the desktop
Nagios monitors an enterprise’s infrastructure to help administrators identify and resolve problems. Nagstamon is a desktop status monitor utility that provides a graphical front end to information from Nagios. Appearing on a user’s desktop as a system tray icon or floating status bar, Nagstamon checks the status web pages of predefined Nagios servers at configured intervals and displays information about down or faulty hosts and services in a short summary. Users can get more information by clicking or hovering over the display, and can connect to the host or service from a context menu to deal with its issues immediately. Nagstamon gives you an almost realtime window into your systems’ status.
German developer Henri Wahl says he used to use Nagios Checker by Petr Šimek to display Nagios server status on work desktops, “which is a great tool, but I did not want to always have a Firefox window opened to monitor our network and servers. I started working on Nagstamon in summer 2008. It’s written in Python, and I use SPE for editing and Gazpacho for GUI design, along with Inkscape for creating the graphics I did not take from GNOME.”
Wahl says he gets a lot of great feedback from SourceForge.net users. “I have some items on the project to-do list that came from users, like displaying flapping hosts or repeated sound notification. I’d also like to let users set hosts and services into maintenance mode from Nagstamon without visiting a Nagios server’s webpage. Maybe that will get into version 1.0.” However, because he works on Nagstamon in his spare time, Wahl doesn’t know when a new release will be ready.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:01 am
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