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December 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)
For that special sys-admin on your holiday gift list...
Nagios is a very popular open-source host, service and network monitoring program that helps streamline network monitoring tasks while reducing the cost of operation. According to the Nagios project site, Nagios is currently in use monitoring more than 900,000 services and 195,000 hosts worldwide.
Taylor Dondich, who is the project lead for Guava - which enhances the presentation layer for Nagios -- recently published a book through O'Reilly titled "Network Monitoring with Nagios. The book serves as a shortcut guide / primer covering installation and usage of Nagios as well as how to extend Nagios with other tools to extend functionality. A quick read at 59 pages, it's a handy guide not only for those who have deployed Nagios in their IT environment, but for those considering using open source for their IT infrastructure monitoring needs.
Network World senior editor Denise Dubie recently did a nice QA with Taylor about his background with Nagios, why he wrote the book, and how open source stacks up with its "commercial brethren."
At $9.99, show a little love to your overworked sys-admin and introduce him to the wonderful world of Nagios.
Posted by Harper Mann on December 19, 2006 09:29 AM
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