Open-source software is free, which is probably its best feature. Users don’t have to closely partner with or meet vendors to access, configure, and customize these tools to their liking.

The winners represent the best free and open source software we’ve used. Our choices in networking software were led by contributing editor Victor R. Garza, with help from contributing editors ...

The free and open-source network monitoring software Nagios Core has a long and strong reputation, providing the base for other monitoring suites – Icinga, Naemon and OP5 among them – and a ...

Nagios Core Image: Nagios Another open-source, free network monitor, Nagios makes it easy to keep tabs on the system status of all the devices attached to your network. With effective data ...

Icinga's management software is well-documented, easy to install and has plenty of plug-ins, but could benefit from an easier install Continuing our quest for robust, enterprise-grade open source ...

Here are 10 network monitoring software products that solution providers should have their eyes on today. Computer code. Deep blue screen.

Because good and free always beats good and costly, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite open source tools that prove their worth day in and day out in networks of any size.

Sooner or later, you’re going to meet with disaster. Fortunately, there are a plethora of good tools, both commercial and open source, that can shine much-needed light into your environment.

They’ve just decided to make the project open source, both hardware and software. The details of the system are available at their GitHub repository. There are two main components to the system.

GroundWork laid for open-source IT monitoring Nagios-based Monitor 3 runs on Linux, Solaris, BSD Unix. Written by Nadia Ilyin, Contributor Sept. 20, 2004, 6:41 a.m. PT Read now ...