Re: [Nagios-users] Which books are best for Nagios 3
Lee Azzarello wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Paul Weaver wrote: On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:25 AM, James Miller wrote: Recently I upgraded us from 2.9 to 3.0.6 and I'm looking for recommendations for a book or two on 3.0 to take my knowledge to the next level. I've found the following books available and I'm wondering which ones are the best: Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! 5. This list. Try to discover the answer to as many questions as you can yourself by reading the docs and source and by trial. Try to understand the why of an answer you discover or provided by someone else. I consider it a much more interesting and varied resource than the few standard examples a book might have; plus it's free =). Only once you reach a certain level. There are no doubt many lurkers who have trouble getting started. I know I did. I got a copy of "Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios" (Feb07) and found that invaluable, but we're still on nagios version 2 Agreed. Dave Josephsen's book is excellent. I'm currently on the visualization chapter. It's very comprehensive and practical. He's opinionated enough to make reading chapters interesting. -lee -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null I agree about the book. You may like to know that Dave Josephsen has also written some excellent articles in ;login: (the Journal of USENIX http://www.usenix.org). Unfortunately, all but the first article (http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2007-08/pdfs/josephsen.pdf) are only available to members at this time. Steve Burton. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Which books are best for Nagios 3
The nagios 3 enterprise monitoring book is mostly getting dinged because syngress has. Not provided paying customers the online content they (the publisher) promised On 2/4/09, Mohr James wrote: >> We've been using Nagios for a few years, since 4/05 and the 2.0b4 > days, >> and absolutely love it. I use it to monitor over a hundred servers, >> almost 400 services, and over the years I think I've become pretty >> darned knowledgeable about most aspects of Nagios. In the Nagios 2.x >> days I found the book Pro Nagios 2.0 to be an indispensables resource >> >> Recently I upgraded us from 2.9 to 3.0.6 and I'm looking for >> recommendations for a book or two on 3.0 to take my knowledge to the >> next level. I've found the following books available and I'm > wondering >> which ones are the best: >> >>1. Nagios: System and Network Monitoring by Wolfgang Barth > (Paperback >> - Oct 28, 2008) - Illustrated >>2. Learning Nagios 3.0 by Wojciech Kocjan (Paperback - Oct 17, > 2008) >>3. Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios by David >> Josephsen (Paperback - Mar 2, 2007) >>4. Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and >> Hardware Devices by Max Schubert, Derrick Bennett, Jonathan > Gines, >> and Andrew Hay (Paperback - Jun 2, 2008) > > > The Wolfgang Barth book is top, without a doubt. If you are going to get > only one, get this one. I have both editions and cannot think of one bad > thing. > > James Turnbull wrote Pro Nagios 2.0 for Apress, but has not been updated > yet for Nagios 3.0. I would still recommend it for beginners. In > general, like his stuff. The Josephsen book is a little dated, but does > go a bit beyond the normal documentation. > > The Kocjan book is a big waste of time and money. It is very superficial > and seems like the author was simply rewriting the existing > documentation. It is very thin on content and I get the feeling the > author has not really administered a Nagios system. > > I don't have "Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring", but the review I > read on are not good. > > > > > -- > Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte > Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail > irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und > vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte > Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you > are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) > please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any > unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this > e-mail is strictly forbidden. > > > -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Which books are best for Nagios 3
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Paul Weaver wrote: >> On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:25 AM, James Miller wrote: >> >> > Recently I upgraded us from 2.9 to 3.0.6 and I'm looking for >> > recommendations for a book or two on 3.0 to take my >> knowledge to the >> > next level. I've found the following books available and I'm >> > wondering which ones are the best: >> >> > Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! >> >> 5. This list. Try to discover the answer to as many questions >> as you can yourself by reading the docs and source and by >> trial. Try to understand the why of an answer you discover or >> provided by someone else. I consider it a much more >> interesting and varied resource than the few standard >> examples a book might have; plus it's free =). > > Only once you reach a certain level. There are no doubt many lurkers > who have trouble getting started. I know I did. I got a copy of > "Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios" (Feb07) and found > that invaluable, but we're still on nagios version 2 Agreed. Dave Josephsen's book is excellent. I'm currently on the visualization chapter. It's very comprehensive and practical. He's opinionated enough to make reading chapters interesting. -lee -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Which books are best for Nagios 3
I've always used the nagios documenation. Is there something these books provide that isn't covered? --kyleo On 2/4/09, Paul Weaver wrote: >> On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:25 AM, James Miller wrote: >> >> > Recently I upgraded us from 2.9 to 3.0.6 and I'm looking for >> > recommendations for a book or two on 3.0 to take my >> knowledge to the >> > next level. I've found the following books available and I'm >> > wondering which ones are the best: >> >> > Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! >> >> 5. This list. Try to discover the answer to as many questions >> as you can yourself by reading the docs and source and by >> trial. Try to understand the why of an answer you discover or >> provided by someone else. I consider it a much more >> interesting and varied resource than the few standard >> examples a book might have; plus it's free =). > > Only once you reach a certain level. There are no doubt many lurkers > who have trouble getting started. I know I did. I got a copy of > "Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios" (Feb07) and found > that invaluable, but we're still on nagios version 2 > > A book is nicer to read on the train too > > -- > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code > to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of > local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > ___ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Which books are best for Nagios 3
> On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:25 AM, James Miller wrote: > > > Recently I upgraded us from 2.9 to 3.0.6 and I'm looking for > > recommendations for a book or two on 3.0 to take my > knowledge to the > > next level. I've found the following books available and I'm > > wondering which ones are the best: > > > Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! > > 5. This list. Try to discover the answer to as many questions > as you can yourself by reading the docs and source and by > trial. Try to understand the why of an answer you discover or > provided by someone else. I consider it a much more > interesting and varied resource than the few standard > examples a book might have; plus it's free =). Only once you reach a certain level. There are no doubt many lurkers who have trouble getting started. I know I did. I got a copy of "Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios" (Feb07) and found that invaluable, but we're still on nagios version 2 A book is nicer to read on the train too -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Which books are best for Nagios 3
> We've been using Nagios for a few years, since 4/05 and the 2.0b4 days, > and absolutely love it. I use it to monitor over a hundred servers, > almost 400 services, and over the years I think I've become pretty > darned knowledgeable about most aspects of Nagios. In the Nagios 2.x > days I found the book Pro Nagios 2.0 to be an indispensables resource > > Recently I upgraded us from 2.9 to 3.0.6 and I'm looking for > recommendations for a book or two on 3.0 to take my knowledge to the > next level. I've found the following books available and I'm wondering > which ones are the best: > >1. Nagios: System and Network Monitoring by Wolfgang Barth (Paperback > - Oct 28, 2008) - Illustrated >2. Learning Nagios 3.0 by Wojciech Kocjan (Paperback - Oct 17, 2008) >3. Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios by David > Josephsen (Paperback - Mar 2, 2007) >4. Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and > Hardware Devices by Max Schubert, Derrick Bennett, Jonathan Gines, > and Andrew Hay (Paperback - Jun 2, 2008) The Wolfgang Barth book is top, without a doubt. If you are going to get only one, get this one. I have both editions and cannot think of one bad thing. James Turnbull wrote Pro Nagios 2.0 for Apress, but has not been updated yet for Nagios 3.0. I would still recommend it for beginners. In general, like his stuff. The Josephsen book is a little dated, but does go a bit beyond the normal documentation. The Kocjan book is a big waste of time and money. It is very superficial and seems like the author was simply rewriting the existing documentation. It is very thin on content and I get the feeling the author has not really administered a Nagios system. I don't have "Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring", but the review I read on are not good. -- Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Which books are best for Nagios 3
Hello, I am currently reviewing Learning Nagios 3,0 and I would say it is not for moving to Nagios 3 it is for *learning Nagios* (3). ((My review will be out (hopefully) next week, have read about half the book now...)) So skip that one if you know your way around Nagios... // Michael Medin James Miller skrev: > Hi Everyone, > > We've been using Nagios for a few years, since 4/05 and the 2.0b4 days, > and absolutely love it. I use it to monitor over a hundred servers, > almost 400 services, and over the years I think I've become pretty > darned knowledgeable about most aspects of Nagios. In the Nagios 2.x > days I found the book Pro Nagios 2.0 to be an indispensables resource > > Recently I upgraded us from 2.9 to 3.0.6 and I'm looking for > recommendations for a book or two on 3.0 to take my knowledge to the > next level. I've found the following books available and I'm wondering > which ones are the best: > >1. Nagios: System and Network Monitoring by Wolfgang Barth (Paperback > - Oct 28, 2008) - Illustrated >2. Learning Nagios 3.0 by Wojciech Kocjan (Paperback - Oct 17, 2008) >3. Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios by David > Josephsen (Paperback - Mar 2, 2007) >4. Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring: Including Plug-Ins and > Hardware Devices by Max Schubert, Derrick Bennett, Jonathan Gines, > and Andrew Hay (Paperback - Jun 2, 2008) > > Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! > > > > > Thanks, > Jim > > > > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > ___ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Which books are best for Nagios 3
On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:25 AM, James Miller wrote: > Recently I upgraded us from 2.9 to 3.0.6 and I'm looking for > recommendations for a book or two on 3.0 to take my knowledge to the > next level. I've found the following books available and I'm > wondering > which ones are the best: > Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! 5. This list. Try to discover the answer to as many questions as you can yourself by reading the docs and source and by trial. Try to understand the why of an answer you discover or provided by someone else. I consider it a much more interesting and varied resource than the few standard examples a book might have; plus it's free =). -- Marc -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
