FreeNATS (the Free Network Automatic Testing System) is an open-source network monitoring software application ^[3] developed by David Cutting under the banner of PurplePixie Systems.

FreeNATS is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Overview

• Monitoring of network services ( SMTP, POP3, HTTP, ICMP (ping) ^[4]
• Limited monitoring of host resources ( processor load, disk usage) on a majority of network operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Linux through agent-based testing
• Plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks depending on needs, by using PHP (or other languages or scripts wrapped in PHP)
• Some ability to define network host hierarchy using "master" nodes allowing link failures to suspend monitoring ^[5]
• Event-based system allowing failure notifications to be sent in customised email (suitable for email-to-SMS) or to utilise third-party notification scripts via a plug-in
• Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
• Automatic data retention cleanups
• Full web-interface for management and monitoring
• Ability to "publish" views and graphs within third-party web pages

See also

• Comparison of network monitoring systems

References

External links

• purplepixie.org/freenats, official website
• FreeNATS Wiki
• Support Forum for FreeNATS
• NetworkWorld.com Article on FreeNATS
• PC Quest Article on FreeNATS