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| Pro Nagios 2.0 (Expert's Voice in Open Source) | 
| Author: James Turnbull
Publisher: Apress
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 358165
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 424
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1590596099
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.6
EAN: 9781590596098
ASIN: 1590596099
Publication Date: April 17, 2006
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 Advanced monitoring solutions for senior IT staffs July 25, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
--- DISCLAIMER: This is a requested review by Apress, however any opinions expressed within the review are my personal ones. ---
With 366 pages this is the most compact Nagios monitoring solutions guide on the marcet. Period !
You can easily take the book with you anywhere you go.
Note however, that Turnbull seems to hit the ground running. The reader is assumed to have at least
some general knowledge of Linux, the command console and roughly how the system works.
Also Turnbull does give a basic function rundown of Nagios in the first 80 pages of the book, it is more
the advanced users that will appreciate the countless documented approaches for monitoring solutions
that are documented in the rest of the book.
He covers a wide range of topics and virtually goes the extra mile. While I found especially the sections
on Security, NRPE, NCSA and SNMP very detailed, the book does really cover a lot of ground in ALL
chapters with a nice mix of details within the text.
Turnbull clearly covers topics which are either not at all or at least not in such detail documented in other
books I have read so far (f.e. failover, redundancy, indirect monitoring, on demand macros, daisy chaining,
adaptive monitoring, freshness checks, the event broker, the embedded perl interpreter, the NSClient++ etc.)
... and the good thing is he doesnt stop there ;-)
Therefore, I would consider Apress's book focused towards software architects, system integrators,
senior system administrators, programmers and developers and I believe it serves this marcet very well.
The books contents is at least 3-6 months newer than other books on the marcet. So simply put, if you are
serious about learning advanced monitoring solutions than you currently have no choice but to get this book.
>> Please find a more detailed review and book comparisons by deploying my profile. <<
Deploy Nagios with Ease June 27, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
On 360 odd pages, the author discusses Nagios in quite some detail. From installation of Nagios, through object configuration, Turnbull brings the ins and outs of Nagios to the reader. Security and administration, the web console and, of course, monitoring of hosts and services make up a good chunk of the book. I specially liked the discussion of monitoring through firewalls; there are some very interesting solutions there, that I hadn't thought about.
Turnbull discusses SNMP and a number of additional programs that are useful in conjunction with Nagios (also for Windows systems). In the chapter Advanced Commands, performance data is discussed together with methods of graphing that data; interesting.
Chapter seven discusses dependencies and notification escalations in such a way as that the reader can actually grasp the difficult topic.
What I liked best was chapter eight: Distributed Monitoring, Redundancy and Failover which goes into the very nitty gritty of getting Nagios to perform even in a disaster case and large installations with multiple Nagios hosts using NSCA. Having had some experience in that area, I read that most carefully.
In the next chapter, the book discusses integration with syslog-ng, as well as with MRTG and other interesting programs. Developing Nagios plugins and a short discussion of the Nagios Event Broker round off the offerings.
Sundry examples and good tips are given throughout all chapters. I strongly recommend this nicely bound and set book to any systems administrator; both those who already use Nagios and especially of course, to those who intend to deploy Nagios
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