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Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and Hardware Devices
written by Max Schubert, Derrick Bennett, Jonathan Gines, Andrew Hay, John Strand
Studio : Syngress
by Syngress
Publisher : Syngress
Released : 2008-06-02
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781597492676
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 4 reviews)
List Price : $49.95
Our Price : $31.42
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Product Description |
Nagios is an Open Source network, hardware, and application monitoring program. It is designed to inform system administrators of problems on their networks before their clients, end-users or managers do. Nagios is a SysAdmin's best friend. Nagios is installed on over 300,000 machines worldwide, and truly is a global product: approximately 25.6% of users are in the U.S., and 30% in EMEA. Nagios can monitor everything from network bandwidth to the temperature and humidity in a server room. SysAdmins are able to use Nagios for such a variety of purposes through custom software "plug ins" and third party hardware. SysAdmins customize these plug ins instructing Nagios to monitor the servers, applications, or devices that are most critical to their network infrastructure. These plug ins also allow SysAdmins to integrate Nagios with other monitoring devices and applications like Snort and Wireshark. Nagios can also be fully integrated with third party environmental monitoring devices and remote power supplies. When Nagios detects a problem, it can notify the SysAdmin in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser. Nagios could send a text message to a SysAdmin sitting on his couch at home that the temperature in the server room is too hot and could potentially damage the equipment. The SysAdmin can then check the status of the server from home using his Nagios Web interface, and then coordinate with the appropriate facility management personnel to check the air conditioning in the server room. This is merely one example of Nagios? capabilities. The same scenario could be applied to an overloaded Exchange server, a router being pounded by a Denial of Service Attack, or a user accessing or downloading unauthorized materials.
* Contains complete case study on deploying Nagios in an enterprise environment.
* Companion Web site offers 100 working Scripts for customizing Nagios plug-ins.
* Helps organizations adhere to federally mandated compliance regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley, or HIPAA.
* Details how to integrate Nagios with third-party hardware. |
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Enterprise Grade Nagios Reference |
This book is just what I've been looking for to better understand Nagios v.3.0+ from an Enterprise perspective and it does an excellent job of explaining the new techniques.
This book is full of examples for every sized organization with lots of good ideas and general practices to follow. I found chapters 5 & 6 especially helpful in covering topics that can't be found anywhere else (let's face it, not too many other Nagios books out there to choose from).
This is an advanced enterprise geared book, so if you're looking for the basics like "retry_check_interval is blah" or "what does SNMP stand for?", then look no further than the Nagios website, it's all thoroughly documented there.
Finally, there is a electronic copy of this book included and even the Linux users out there should be able to access it via a Windows VM guest with a minimal amount of effort.
I have used Nagios 24x7x365 for a few years now, so I keep a copy of this book on my desk for reference, tips, techniques and guidance for the future. |
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If you want an E-book copy of this book, move on |
I purchased this book under the impression that it came with a free digital version of the book. WRONG! You have to register on Elsevier and download a proprietary reader that is only compatible with Windows and Mac OS X. So, if you read the cover as I did: "Free E-book download" and assumed you would be able to have a book to read on your phone or Linux OS, move along.
As for the content of the book itself, I haven't even opened it past Pg.3 due to this issue and plan on returning it for a more user-friendly publication. |
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Let down by sprawl and electronic backup |
This book suffers hugely from a large amount of code in the book. At a rough guess, I'd say between 1/3 and 1/4 of the book is code. This is simply unacceptable, as it should be a reference to the online code samples for reference, or come with a CD containing the info. Hard copy is not the place for pages of static code.
The cover promises downloads of a VMWare image, and scripts etc. Attempting to access this, as of the time of this review, the site simply says there's no such page. So I can't register the book with the publishing company, and thus can't access the code, the image or anything else online.
The core is useful info, but it could easily be in a book half its size, without the code cruft. This 'bulking out' makes it far less valuable to me as a 'keep with me reference', so it gets marked solidly as a 2 star. Certainly leaves me feeling that the $50 price tag was just not worth it. |
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Good for advanced Nagios sysadmins |
This is a great book if you are an established Nagios admin. If you are getting started with Nagios, I recommend "Pro Nagios 2.0" by Turnbull.
This book doesn't explain basic configuration (e.g. "Here's what the 'check_interval' parameter does...") Instead, it goes into more advanced issues like ways to handle SNMP traps, Windows monitoring and scalability.
This is the first book that deals specifically with Nagios v3 and its new features, so I would recommend it on that item alone. Many important changes were made since v2 and I'm glad its getting documented.
As always, there could be deeper treatment of many of the technical subjects. That, and the occasional amateurish writing or editing are what keep it from getting five stars. |
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