Network Monitoring through Nagios open source

[skanwal]

Dear Community,

I am a new user, so please bear my question even if it sounds stupid.

I have windows environment in my organization. I am thinking to move from prtg network Monitoring to Nagios.
But to install opne source I need a linux machine.I can do that on a linux vm. But the point is that, does all machines being monitored have to be of Linux OS in this case or they can be of Winodws OS as well?

[benjaminsmith]

Hi @skanwal,

Welcome! And thank you for considering Nagio. By the way, if you're looking for an enterprise product, check out Nagios XI as well. There's a free trial available.

Anyhow, Nagios has to be installed on Linux, but you can monitor virtually anything, including Windows. I would highly recommend using an agent like NCPA to run checks on Window hosts, it's much easier than WMI or another protocol.

https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have more questions.