is nagios free?

golden_boy615 · 03-27-2010, 06:24 AM

Hello
I wanted to know is nagios free or not a saw its official website but did not understand at the end which part is free and which part is not free?

troop · 03-27-2010, 06:52 AM

nagios is totally free. sources under gpl2.

golden_boy615 · 03-27-2010, 07:26 AM

so what is nagios XI that is not free you can see http://www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxi/pricing. what does it do on nagios

XavierP · 03-27-2010, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Nagios

What's Included?

A licensed copy of Nagios XI provides customers with a number of benefits, including:
Technical Support

Nagios Enterprises offers tech support for Nagios XI via a special customer-only section of our support forum.
Perpetual License

Purchase Nagios XI for a one-time fee and you can use it as long as you'd like.
Upgrade Discounts

Customers are eligible for special discount pricing when upgrading to future major releases.
Nagios Library

Get a full year of access to the Nagios Library with special customer-only tutorials, videos, and tech tips.
Product Influence

We listen to all Nagios users when determining our product roadmaps, but your feature requests will get bumped up to the front of the line. Tell us what you'd like to see and we'll build our future products to include the newest features you're looking for.
Builder Licensing Freedom

Build extensions for Nagios XI using our APIs and you choose the license for your dashlet, wizard, or component: Open Source, proprietary, or public domain - the choice is yours.

The no cost version is likely to only have community support rather than official support.

stevenkent · 11-11-2012, 07:56 PM

Although its still not free, here is a link to save 20%. We used it a couple months ago. It looks like it still works.. http://www.nagios.com/nagiosxi20?ref=JB20