Capabilities

Nagios provides both agentless and agent-based monitoring of Windows, Linux, and Unix systems, as well as network equipment – including operating system metrics, service state, process state, file system usage, and more. Agentless technologies like WMI and SNMP allow IT administrator to deploy monitoring solutions without having to install agent software on each monitored system.

Benefits

Implementing effective agentless monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:

• Increased server, services, and application availability
• Fast detection of server and operating system failures
• Fast detection of service and application failures
• Reduced deployment time
• Reduced administrative overhead
• Centralized configuration 

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide agentless monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• SNMP Monitoring
• WMI Monitoring
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