Which books are best for Nagios 3

Max perldork at webwizarddesign.com
Thu Feb 5 14:12:05 CET 2009


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 <james.mohr at elaxy.com> 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.
>
>
>
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