The history of Nagios: the saint that became the pager
On March 14, 1999, Ethan Galstad released NetSaint 0.0.1. He thought about a dozen people would care. It pinged hosts, ran plugins, sent email and pager alerts when a service went down — and again when it recovered. In 2002, the name became Nagios: “Nagios Ain’t Gonna Insist On Sainthood,” hagios = saint, … Read more