1·Typical alerting methods are E-mail and some sort of custom hook interface to allow operation teams to propagate events into an event-processing system.
典型的报警方法是电子邮件和某种类型的自定义钩子接口，可以允许运营小组将事件传播给事件处理系统。
2·Some people are interested only in machine alerting, others in performance metrics, others in job profiling, and others just want to know if certain services or applications are running.
一些人只对计算机报警感兴趣，一些人需要监视性能指标，一些人需要作业分析，其他人只希望知道某些服务或应用程序是否在运行。
3·The web user interface (UI) provides use-anywhere monitoring, alerting, and diagnosis of potential performance bottlenecks, and enables access to health summaries and trending reports.
web用户界面(UI)方便用户随时随地监测、报警、以及诊断潜在的性能瓶颈，并提供健康摘要与趋势报告。
4·Ganglia is more concerned with gathering metrics and tracking them over time while Nagios has focused on being an alerting mechanism.
Ganglia更多地与收集度量数据并随时跟踪这些数据有关，而Nagios一直致力于成为一种报警机制。
5·Alerting: the capability to notify interested individuals or groups about a specific condition determined from the collected metrics.
报警：将收集指标确定的具体条件通知相关个体或组的功能。