NConf is an open source tool for configuring the
Nagios
Nagios Core , formerly known as Nagios, is a free and open-source computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. ...
network monitoring system (and its fork
Icinga). It is mainly targeted at sysadmins who are looking for a more convenient way of managing their Nagios configuration files through the use of a graphical user interface, as opposed to maintaining the configuration files with a text editor.
NConf allows central management of a distributed monitoring environment. It also offers various enterprise-like features such as
LDAP authentication, a database API and configuration deployment over secure protocols (
SCP
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,
HTTPs). An import mechanism for importing existing configuration files is also available.
NConf is written mainly in
PHP and
Perl. All data is stored in a
MySQL database. Dependencies for NConf are:
Nagios
Nagios Core , formerly known as Nagios, is a free and open-source computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. ...
,
Apache web server
The Apache HTTP Server ( ) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Soft ...
,
PHP,
Perl, and
MySQL.
History
Development on NConf began in 2006. It was originally developed and used in-house exclusively by
Sunrise Communications AG
Sunrise UPC GmbH (formerly Sunrise Communications AG), doing business as Sunrise, is a Swiss telecommunications provider based in Zurich, owned by Liberty Global. It provides mobile, TV and landline phone and internet services. Since February ...
, a Swiss telecommunications provider. In 2009 Sunrise decided to make the software available to the public under the
GNU General Public License (GPL). As of 2011, NConf source code is hosted in a public repository on
GitHub.
See also
*
Nagios
Nagios Core , formerly known as Nagios, is a free and open-source computer-software application that monitors systems, networks and infrastructure. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. ...
*
Icinga
External links
NConf on GitHubNConf on SourceForgeThe history of NConfApplication and DB design
References
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Free network management software
Internet Protocol based network software
Nagios