Product Description

Good system administrators recognize problems long before anyone asks, "Hey, is the Internet down?" Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool, has emerged as the most popular solution for sys admins in organizations of all sizes. It's robust but also complex, and "Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd Edition," updated to address Nagios 3.0, will help you take full advantage of this program. Nagios, which runs on Linux and most *nix variants, can be configured to continuously monitor network services such as SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, SSH, and FTP. It can also supervise host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, and so on) and environmental factors, such as temperature and humidity. This book is your guide to getting the most out of this versatile and powerful monitoring tool. Inside "Nagios," you'll learn how to: Install and configure the Nagios core, all standard plugins, and selected third-party plugins Configure the notification system to alert you of ongoing problems-and to alarm others in case of a serious crisis Program event handlers to take automatic action when trouble occurs Write Perl plugins to customize Nagios for your unique needs Quickly understand your Nagios data using graphing and visualization tools Monitor Windows servers, SAP systems, and Oracle databases The book also includes a chapter that highlights the differences between Nagios versions 2 and 3 and gives practical migration and compatibility tips. "Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, 2nd Edition" is a great starting point for configuring and using Nagios in your own environment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #175502 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 719 pages

About the Author
Wolfgang Barth has written several books for professional network administrators, including Firewall (Suse Press), Network Analysis (Suse Press), and Backup Solutions with Linux (Open Source Press). He is a professional system administrator with considerable experience using Nagios.

Customer Reviews

Lets me do my job when I first time install Nagios2
Book covers Nagios2. It's easy to follow and let you know about an important features of Nagios. The beginning could be bit more better, but overall it's good book. You should be able to build small and medium size monitoring environment after reading and that what you may expect after that kind of book. There are some more adv. topics, but if you already know how to run it and configure in your environment you wont get know much more. I can recommend to anyone who don't really know how to start and configure Nagios

Step by step with nagios
This book helps to understand how to install and configure nagios from scratch. It's a very good book !!