Benefits of Nagios version 4 in monitoring services

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Benefits of Nagios version 4 in monitoring services

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Please explain the benefits of upgrading nagios from 3 to 4 and its advantages of the monitoring solution.
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Re: Benefits of Nagios version 4 in monitoring services

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Probably the biggest difference between the 2 versions is the capacity of Core 4 to perform many many more checks than Core 3 on the same equipment. this is because Core 4 has worker processes that are much lighter weight than the forking process that Core 3 used.

Additionally, there are multiple security vulnerabilities that have been fixed in Core 4.
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