SANDY, Utah, May 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Infrastructure Management Solution Built on Open Source

Opengear a leading provider of next generation out-of-band management
solutions, today announced the release of Nagios central management software
which provides server administrators and network managers with centralized
monitoring and secure control of their distributed computers, software and
networks.

"Customers are demanding a high capacity infrastructure management
solution that delivers a level of affordability and extensibility not found
in proprietary solutions available today," said Bob Waldie, Opengear CEO. 
"So we developed the SDT for Nagios software that extends the popular Nagios
solution so it can not only monitor and alert, but also access and control."

Nagios is the leading enterprise grade open source monitoring system and
is used by thousands of companies worldwide. It actively monitors networks,
servers and applications and provides sophisticated alarming and notification
mechanisms and escalation rules to alert administrators of potential problems
that require attention. Opengear's SDT for Nagios then provides automated
secure access to the problem location and to the tools required for incident
resolution. SDT for Nagios integrates Opengear's SDT Connector remote access
client and their next generation console servers giving network operations
centre and data center administrators secure in-band and out-of-band remote
access. It also provides control of all their physical and virtual ICT assets
from a single Nagios screen.

"We selected Nagios because it is a best of breed management platform and
it is open source. Rather than develop a high ticket proprietary management
solution we decided to offer an open source solution to enable our customers
to manage their infrastructure at greatly reduced cost.

"Nagios software is GPL licensed can be downloaded and run free of
charge. Similarly Opengear's SDT extensions are free of charge. However when
we have customers looking for assistance in customizing or optimizing their
Nagios implementation we work in partnership with the Nagios support
community worldwide to provide these services," Waldie said.

One key partner is NETWAYS GmbH (www.netways.de) a leading European
provider of consulting and tools in open source monitoring and system
management. NETWAYS has a proven expertise in implementing Nagios monitoring
solutions in networks with customers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy,
France, Ireland and Luxembourg.

About Nagios

Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) is an enterprise grade host and service
monitor designed to inform system administrators of network problems. Nagios
is an open source monitoring system that can monitor network resources such
as switches, routers, server as well as services and applications.

About Opengear

Sandy Utah based Opengear, Inc. (http://www.opengear.com) delivers next
generation out-of-band management solutions providing secure remote access
and control of all the computers and communications devices in datacenters
and distributed networks. For more information, please call +1-801-282-1387.

Web site: http://www.opengear.com
              http://www.nagios.org