NEMS, short for Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server, is a modern pre-configured, customized and ready-to-deploy Nagios Core image designed to run on the Raspberry Pi 3 micro computer. At its core it is a lightweight Debian Stretch deployment optimized for performance, reliability and ease of use.
NEMS is free to download, deploy, and use. Its development however is supported by its community of users. Please consider contributing if you can.
The goal with NEMS is to provide a free, full-featured, up to date drop in Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server for Raspberry Pi 3. It has all the bells and whistles while being optimized for solid stability and fast performance.
The original NEMS release was based (with big thanks to Ryan Siegel) on NagiosPi, with many of the settings reflective of the NagiosPi Wheezy distro (which is now obsolete).
Here is what Ryan Siegel (the creator of NagiosPi) has to say about NEMS: “I’d love to upgrade NagiosPi, but i don’t have ability to make a GUI that can beat that of NEMS. I strongly feel that it has always been a necessary addition to NagiosPi and NEMS was able to deliver what is essentially an updated and improved version of NagiosPi. No reason not to start using NEMS for the time being. Nice work Robbie!” [source]
NEMS has since become a popular drop-in Nagios distro for Raspberry Pi, with a major release twice per year.
Nagios® Core™ is an Open Source system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and when they get better.
Some of the many features of Nagios Core include: