Pro Nagios 2.0

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Installation

   Pages 1-28

3. Basic Object Configuration

   Pages 29-85

4. Security and Administration

   Pages 87-111

5. Using the Web Console

   Pages 113-142

6. Monitoring Hosts and Services

   Pages 143-206

7. Advanced Commands

   Pages 207-247

8. Advanced Object Configuration

   Pages 249-267

9. Distributed Monitoring, Redundancy, and Failover

   Pages 269-298

10. Integrating Nagios

    Pages 299-341

11. Developing Plug-ins

    Pages 343-366

12. Back Matter

    Pages 367-400

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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. You'll 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.

• Failover
• Host
• Nagios
• Windows
• design
• development
• operating system

James Turnbull is the author of five technical books about open source software and a longtime member of the open source community. James authored the first and second books about Puppet, and works for Puppet Labs, running client services. James speaks regularly at conferences including OSCON, Linux.conf.au, FOSDEM, OpenSourceBridge, DevOpsDays and a number of others. He is a past president of Linux Australia, has run Linux.conf.au and serves on the program committee of Linux.conf.au and OSCON. James is Australian but currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His interests include cooking, wine, political theory, photojournalism, philosophy, and most recently the Portland Timbers association football team.

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