nagios: nagios (Host/service/network monitoring program) nagios: nagios: Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your nagios: network. It has the ability to email or page you when a problem arises nagios: and when a problem is resolved. Nagios is written in C and is nagios: designed to run under Linux (and some other *NIX variants) as a nagios: background process, intermittently running checks on various services nagios: that you specify. nagios: nagios: The actual service checks are performed by separate "plugin" programs nagios: in package nagios-plugins.