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Free Network Automatic Testing SystemSearch (beta)

FreeNATS is a PHP and MySQL based automatic network status testing, alerting and repoting package from PurplePixie Systems and released under the GNU General Public Licence for free use.

Current Test Types
  • Ping (ICMP)
  • HTTP/HTTPs (Web)
  • IMAP/IMAPs
  • POP3/POP3s
  • MySQL Connection
  • MySQL Queries
  • TCP Port
 Other Features Include
  • Email Alerting
  • URL Alerting
  • Test Schedules
  • Publishable Views
  • Availability Reports
  • Graph & Table History
  • Live Monitor
Latest News

Version 1.01.7b Released

Upgrading to 0.02.3 or Beyond
Please be aware than 0.02.3 brings in a few change...

Icon Directory Scan
You can now simply drop icon files (32x32 images) ...

FreeNATS News Archive

Now Available as a Stable Beta: Download Now
Current source release: 1.01.7b. Current virtual appliance release: 4b.


The system is available both as PHP Source and pre-installed within an rPath LAMP virtual appliance. Following quite an extensive alpha-test process it is now available as a stable beta. The system is still very much in development with new features such as node-side testing (gathering data such as load averages and disk space with optional alerting).

FreeNATS is intended to be a lightweight alternative to other (far superior but more complex) systems. If you're after an "enterprise-level solution" then FreeNATS is probably not for you and something like Nagios which is also free and open-source may be a better option.

The system was developed by me purely to replace a lot of shell/PHP/C things I had sitting around to either alert if a service failed or record historic service information. Through user feedback and suggestions it has grown to include new test types and features.

Ultimately the plan is to add node-side magic as well as various other tools and maybe even SNMP. Any feedback, suggestions, bugs or comments you may have are very welcome via the as-yet-totally-unused online forum or directly through the feedback page.


Many Thanks...

Special thanks to... Ole Stanstrup, Terry McDonald, Matt Bohan, Paavo, Bigtree, and James.

General thanks & praise to... PHP/Zend, The Apache Foundation, GNU, MySQL AB and many many more.

Thanks for the hosting to... Verrotech

And last but in no means least... thanks to you, all the users who have struggled on with FreeNATS and submitted bug reports, made suggestions, heaped praise and poured forth scorn. All your input is valued and it's great to know people find the system useful. Got any suggestions or want to let us know about some crazy way you're using the system, then do so.



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