NAME

       nagios3 - network/systems status monitoring daemon

SYNOPSIS

       nagios3 [-h] [-v] [-s] [-d] <main_config_file>

DESCRIPTION

       nagios3  is a daemon program that monitors the status of various network accessible systems, devices, and
       more.  For more information, please consult the online documentation available at  http://www.nagios.org,
       or on your nagios server's web page.

OPTIONS

       main_config_file
              The main configuration file.  On debian systems this defaults to /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg

       -h     A helpful usage message

       -v     Reads  all data in the configuration files and performs a basic verification/sanity check.  Always
              make sure you verify your config data before (re)starting Nagios.

       -s     Shows projected/recommended check  scheduling  information  based  on  the  current  data  in  the
              configuration files.

       -d     Starts Nagios in daemon mode (instead of as a foreground process).

FILES

       /etc/nagios3
              Default configuration directory for nagios3

AUTHOR

       nagios3  is written and maintained by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>.  This manual page was written by
       sean finney <seanius@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (but it may  be  freely  used,
       modified, and redistributed by others).

sean finney                                       February 2006                                       nagios3(8)