Book Details


Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (April 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590596099
ISBN-13: 978-1590596098

Book Description

After reading this book, I now have a clear understanding of how Nagios works, how to implement it across all types of networked equipment, and even how to shut it off during my week of on-call. I give this book a 10/10.
— Joe Topjian, Adminspotting.net
Pro Nagios 2.0 explains how to install and administer Nagios, the web-based enterprise management tool that helps monitor Unix, Windows, network devices, infrastructure equipment, and applications. Youll learn how to architect Nagios installations, deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor a variety of assets, which include applications across a variety of platforms and operating systems. Nagios has the power to alert you to current and future incidents that could impact the availability, performance, and security of monitored assets.
The books real-world configurations and supporting materials will enable you to deploy Nagios and integrate other tools (like MRTG and Snort) on a helpful step-by-step basis. Integrating Nagios with a variety of other tools can add more functionality to its internal monitoring and alerting capabilities. The book covers additional topics like security, redundancy and failover, and plug-in development. And it shows you how to create your own Nagios plug-ins, to monitor devices for which Nagios may not provide plug-ins.


About the Author
James Turnbull works for the National Australia Bank as a security architect. He is the author of Hardening Linux, which focuses on hardening the Linux host, and Pro Nagios 2.0, which focuses on enterprise management using the Nagios open source tool.


James has previously worked as an executive manager for IT security at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the CIO of a medical research foundation, manager of the architecture group of an outsourcing company, and in a number of IT roles in gaming, telecommunications, and government. He is an experienced infrastructure architect with a background in Linux/Unix, AS/400, Windows, and storage systems. He has
been involved in security consulting, infrastructure security design, SLA, and service definition, and has an abiding interest in security metrics and measurement.
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