FAN

FAN (Fully Automated Nagios) is a unique project that helps anyone to easily install the powerful and highly acclaimed Nagios monitoring solution on a computer. It’s a distribution of Linux derived from CentOS, which in turn in based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.

Supports 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms

The FAN distribution can be downloaded from its official website or via Softoware (see download link above) as two installable-only ISO images, one for old computers supporting the 32-bit architecture and another one for modern 64-bit machines.

Includes advanced boot options

The boot menu has been redesigned and it includes advanced boot options, such as the ability to install FAN central, FAN poller and FAN database components. From here, the user will be able to install a standalone version of FAN using either the graphical or text-mode installers.

Graphical or text-mode installation

The graphical installer will require you to choose a language to use during the installation process, as well as to select a keyboard layout from the text-based interface. Then, you will be able to partition the disk and encrypt the system,

What’s in the package

The distribution includes the core Nagios components and plugins, Centreon, a web-based interface for Nagios, the NagVis advanced mapping tool, NDOUtils for storing Nagios data into a MySQL database, as well as NRPE, which makes it possible to monitor Microsoft Windows servers.

The best tool to install Nagios

FAN is by far the best tool to install the Nagios monitoring system, its dependencies, a vast amount of plugins, as well as a couple of other useful tools that helps you interact with Nagios and configure its settings. The distribution is updated regularly and includes the latest versions of the aforementioned software projects. Download it today from Softoware and you won’t regret it!

What is new in this release:

• Nagios 3.4.4
• Centreon 2.4.1
• Nagvis 1.7.6
• Add nagios plugins 1.4.16
• Feature #3530842 : update mk-livestatus-1.2.0p3
• Feature #3483896 : LSB script compatibility
• Feature #3480025 : add check_wmi_plus and wmic
• Feature #3512393 : adding poller in fan standalone
• Feature #3474785 : Add plugin NRDP
• Feature #3535120 : Add plugin check_esxi_hardware.php
• Feature #3600083 : Add check_nwc_health
• Update packages to current version

What is new in version 1.1:

• Feature Request#2381949: Migration to NagVis 1.3.2
• Feature Request#2321483: Better home of FAN
• Feature Request#2165770: Add new package: webinject
• Feature Request#2156972: Add new package: Nagios2Json
• Feature Request#2156967: Update NagVis
• Feature Request#2156955: Update Centreon
• Feature Request#2156949: Update Nagios Plugins
• Feature Request#2156947: Update Nagios
• Bug#1954251: Selinux activated
• Bug#2126326: character problems with NaReTo html doc
• Bug#2186762: Probleme d'encodage carac. vues oreon
• Bug#2200500: Bad presentation on home page with IE
• Bug#2332916: Dokuwiki does not work
• Bug#2332926: check_radius plugins does not work
• Bug#2333123: fan-sendmail-color needed but not installed
• Bug#2353913: Centreon 1.4.2.7 needs XML_RPC
• Bug#2413660: NDOUTils store to many data
• Bug#2413663: NagVis 1.3.2 need php-mbstring dependency
• Bug#2446112: Bad rights of nagios demon when update
• Bug#2446116: Centreon report bad version when update
• Bug#2446124: Centreon could not write Nagios configuration files
• Bug#2446129: NagVis configuration file is not updated to new version
• Bug#2448089: ODS file is not rotated