Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring Including Plug-Ins and Hardware Devices

The future for Nagios in the enterprise is certainly bright! Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring can help you harness the full power of Nagios in your organization. Nagios 3 contains many significant new features and updates, and this book details them all for you. Once up and running, you'll see how a number of useful add-ons and enhancements for Nagios can extend the functionality of Nagios throughout your organization. And, if you want to learn how to write your own plugins...this is the book for you! In these pages you'll find a cookbook-style chapter full of useful plugins that monitor a variety of devices, from HTTP-based applications to CPU utilization to LDAP servers and more.

Autorentext

Andrew leads a team of software developers at Q1 Labs Inc. integrating 3rd party event and vulnerability data into QRadar, their flagship network security management solution. Prior to joining Q1 Labs, Andrew was CEO and co-founder of Koteas Corporation, a leading provider of end to end security and privacy solutions for government and enterprise. His resume also includes such organizations as Nokia Enterprise Solutions, Nortel Networks, and Magma Communications, a division of Primus. Andrew is a strong advocate of security training, certification programs, and public awareness initiatives. He also holds several industry certifications including the CCNA, CCSA, CCSE, CCSE NGX, CCSE Plus, Security+, GCIA, GCIH, SSP-MPA, SSP-CNSA, NSA, RHCT, and RHCE.

Klappentext

Nagios is an Open Source network, hardware, and application monitoring program. It is designed to inform system administrators of problems on their networks before their clients, end-users or managers do. As a SysAdmin, security professional or forensic investigator, Nagios can be your best friend. This is the only enterprise-class book on Nagios, which can help you to monitor everything from your network bandwidth to the temperature and humidity in your server room. In this book, you?ll learn to develop your own custom software ?plug ins? and integrate Nagios with third party hardware. The book also contains a special case study detailing how to deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Nagios in an enterprise environment as well as how to integrate Nagios with other monitoring applications and dashboards including Snort, Wireshark, and Cacinda. The companion Web sites also contains dozens of custom WMI scripts and plug-ins.

Zusammenfassung
Helps you harness the power of Nagios in your organization. This book details Nagios 3's many significant features and updates. It shows you how a number of useful add-ons and enhancements for Nagios can extend the functionality of Nagios in your organization. It also helps you learn how to write your own plugins.

Inhalt

Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Nagios 3; Chapter 2: Designing Configurations for Large Organizations; Chapter 3: Scaling Nagios; Chapter 4: Plug-ins, Plug-ins, and More Plug-ins; Chapter 5: Add-ons and Enhancements; Chapter 6: Enterprise Integration; Chapter 7: Intrusion Detection and Security Analysis; Chapter 8: Case Study: Acme Enterprises