Nagios – System and Network Monitoring 2e - Softcover

Barth, Wolfgang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593271794 ISBN 13: 9781593271794

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 notific

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1593271794
• ISBN 13: 9781593271794
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 720