Project Summary
Check_mk adopts a new a approach for collecting data from operating systems and network components. It obsoletes NRPE, check_by_ssh, NSClient and check_snmp. It has many benefits, the most important of which are:
* Significant reduction of CPU usage on the Nagios host.
* Automatic inventory of items to be checked on hosts.
The larger your Nagios installation is, the more important get these points. In fact check_mk enables you to implement a monitoring environment exceeding 20.000 checks/min on the first hand.
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has a well established, mature codebase
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took an estimated 449 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2002
ending with its most recent commit 12 days ago
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