Author : Wojciech Kocjan
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2008-10-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1847195199
A comprehensive configuration guide to monitor and maintain your network and systems
Author : Wojciech Kocjan
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1785881531
Learn and monitor your entire IT infrastructure to ensure your systems, applications, services, and business function effectively. About This Book Packed with tips, tricks and illustrations, the book will explain the configuration and monitoring concepts in a simplified manner Experience the scalability and flexibility of Nagios in a very practical and easy-to-understand approach. Unleash the power of Nagios Core and Nagios XI 5 to monitor and secure your infrastructure with ease. Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at System Administrators, both, who have no prior knowledge of Nagios as well as readers experienced with it. It not only covers the basics of Nagios but also the advanced features. What You Will Learn Set up and use the built-in Nagios web interface Upskill the additional interfaces available for Nagios to monitor your IT infrastructure Learn how to perform various checks using both, Nagios standard plugins and third-party plugins Explore the working of notifications and events in Nagios Familiarize yourself with SNMP and use it for monitoring devices such as routers, switches, modems and printers Discover how can be Nagios can be customized and tailored to your needs Get to know more about the entreprise version of Nagios, Nagios XI In Detail Nagios, a powerful and widely used IT monitoring and management software for problem -solving. It detects problems related to your organizations infrastructure and helps in resolving the issue before it impacts the business. Following the success of the previous edition, this book will continue to help you monitor the status of network devices and also notify the system administrators of network problems. Starting with the fundamentals, the book will teach you how to install and configure Nagios for your environment. The book helps you learn how to end downtimes, adding comments and generating reports using the built-in Web interface of Nagios. Moving on, you will be introduced to the third-party web interfaces and applications for checking the status and report specific information. As you progress further in Learning Nagios, you will focus on the standard set of Nagios plugins and also focus on teach you how to efficiently manage large configurations and using templates. Once you are up to speed with this, you will get to know the concept and working of notifications and events in Nagios. The book will then uncover the concept of passive check and shows how to use NRDP (Nagios Remote Data Processor). The focus then shifts to how Nagios checks can be run on remote machines and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) can be used from Nagios. Lastly, the book will demonstrate how to extend Nagios by creating custom check commands, custom ways of notifying users and showing how passive checks and NRDP can be used to integrate your solutions with Nagios. By the end of the book, you will be a competent system administrator who could monitor mid-size businesses or even large scale enterprises. Style and approach This will be a practical learning guide for system administrators which will teach them everything about Nagios along with implementing it for your organization and then ending with securing it.
Author : Wojciech Kocjan
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1783288655
This book will introduce Nagios to readers who are interested in monitoring their systems. All the concepts in the book are explained in a simplified manner, presented in an easy-to-understand language with lots of tips, tricks, and illustrations. This book is great for system administrators interested in using Nagios to monitor their systems. It will also help professionals who have already worked with earlier versions of Nagios to understand the new features of Nagios 4 and provides usable solutions to real-life problems related to Nagios administration. To effectively use this book, system administration knowledge is required. If you want to create your own plug-ins, knowledge of scripting languages like Perl, shell and Python is expected.
Author : Tom Ryder
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1785883135
Over 90 hands-on recipes that will employ Nagios Core as the anchor of monitoring on your network About This Book Master the advanced configuration techniques of Nagios Core to model your network better by improving hosts, services, and contacts Filter and improve the notifications that Nagios Core sends in response to failed checks, which can greatly assist you when diagnosing problems Pull Nagios Core's data into a database to write clever custom reports of your own devise Who This Book Is For If you are a network or system administrator and are looking for instructions and examples on working with Nagios Core, then this book is for you. Some basic shell command-line experience is required, and some knowledge of scripting would be helpful when we discuss how plugins work. What You Will Learn Manage the configuration of Nagios Core with advanced techniques to achieve fine detail in your checks Find, install, and even write your own check plugins Filter notifications to send them to the right people or programs at the right time Work around difficult network accessibility issues and delegate checks to other machines Tweak a Nagios Core server to achieve both high performance and redundancy in case of disaster Process the results of checks performed by other machines to monitor backups and similar processes Extend Nagios Core to allow advanced scripting, reporting, and network visualization behavior In Detail Nagios Core is an open source monitoring framework suitable for any network that ensures both internal and customer-facing services are running correctly and manages notification and reporting behavior to diagnose and fix outages promptly. It allows very fine configuration of exactly when, where, what, and how to check network services to meet both the uptime goals of your network and systems team and the needs of your users. This book shows system and network administrators how to use Nagios Core to its fullest as a monitoring framework for checks on any kind of network services, from the smallest home network to much larger production multi-site services. You will discover that Nagios Core is capable of doing much more than pinging a host or to see whether websites respond. The recipes in this book will demonstrate how to leverage Nagios Core's advanced configuration, scripting hooks, reports, data retrieval, and extensibility to integrate it with your existing systems, and to make it the rock-solid center of your network monitoring world. Style and approach Each chapter contains a set of step-by-step recipes to perform an example of a commonly performed task related to network administration. The book begins by focusing closely on the properties and configuration of Nagios Core itself, and gradually moves on to other pieces of software that can support, manage, and extend the system.
Author : Wayne Taylor
Publisher : GitforGits
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2023-10-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8119177541
To help aspiring IT professionals succeed in the automation field, "Learning Ansible" provides an in-depth primer that covers all the essential skills. The book is an excellent resource that will help you become an expert IT automation specialist and Ansible Developer. Starting with an introduction to Ansible, the journey will show how crucial it is in today's IT settings. The first few chapters cover the essentials, diving into topics like configuration management, automation, integration, and orchestration. The authors make sure that readers can confidently troubleshoot issues by thoroughly examining network, performance, and security errors and providing advanced debugging techniques. Practical uses of Ansible in system administration, user and group management, and managing common and complex errors are explored throughout the book. Setup of network devices, software upgrade automation, and fixing recurring network problems are all covered in detail, along with example programs. Next, we'll take a closer look at DevOps, with a focus on how Ansible has impacted CI/CD pipelines. The course teaches readers how to integrate Ansible with popular tools and cloud providers like AWS and Azure through and various tools such as Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes. Additionally, integration is extended to databases such as MySQL and MongoDB, as well as monitoring tools such as Nagios and Prometheus. By incorporating practical exercises throughout, the book guarantees that its readers will grasp the concepts and be able to put them to use in actual situations. Key Learnings A thorough introduction to Ansible, laying the groundwork for mastering IT automation techniques. In-depth examination of system administration, with emphasis on improving user and group management skills. Detailed instructions for debugging in Ansible, enhancing problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities. Practical demonstrations of network device configuration, aimed at improving network management skills. Hands-on Ansible integration with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, enhancing CI/CD capabilities. Integration with cloud providers such as AWS and Azure to strengthen cloud management skills. Techniques for automating workstation setup and software upgrades, with the goal of increasing automation efficiency. Integration with monitoring and logging tools, promoting best practices in system monitoring. Using Ansible to build a full-stack application setup and gain end-to-end automation expertise. Consistent application of web server sample program, which makes learning practical and relatable. Table of Content Introduction to Ansible Playbooks and Tasks Working with Modules Roles, Files and Templating Managing Systems with Ansible Ansible in Networking Ansible for DevOps Troubleshooting Ansible Integrating Ansible with Other Tools
Author : Fabio Alessandro Locati
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1789950007
Use Ansible to configure your systems, deploy software, and orchestrate advanced IT tasks Key FeaturesGet familiar with the fundamentals of Ansible 2.7Understand how to use Ansible Tower to scale your IT automationGain insights into how to develop and test Ansible playbooks Book Description Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With the release of Ansible 2.7, even complex tasks can be handled much more easily than before. Learning Ansible 2.7 will help you take your first steps toward understanding the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible by introducing you to topics such as playbooks, modules, and the installation of Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), and Windows support. In addition to this, you will focus on various testing strategies, deployment, and orchestration to build on your knowledge. The book will then help you get accustomed to features including cleaner architecture, task blocks, and playbook parsing, which can help you to streamline automation processes. Next, you will learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) before gaining insights into the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy. This will help you to use Ansible to interact with different operating systems and improve your working efficiency. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the Ansible skills you need to automate complex tasks for your organization. What you will learnCreate a web server using Ansible Write a custom module and test it Deploy playbooks in the production environment Troubleshoot networks using Ansible Use Ansible Galaxy and Ansible Tower during deployment Deploy an application with Ansible on AWS, Azure and DigitalOceanWho this book is for This beginner-level book is for system administrators who want to automate their organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2.7. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required
Author : Joakim Verona
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1787128679
Learn to use some of the most exciting and powerful tools to deliver world-class quality software with continuous delivery and DevOps About This Book Get to know the background of DevOps so you understand the collaboration between different aspects of an IT organization and a software developer Deploy top-quality software and ensure software maintenance and release management with this practical guide This course covers some of the most exciting technology available to DevOps engineers, and demonstrates multiple techniques for using them Real-world and realistic examples are provided to help you as you go about the implementation and adoption of continuous delivery and DevOps Who This Book Is For This course is for developers who want to understand how the infrastructure that builds today's enterprises works, and how to painlessly and regularly ship quality software. What You Will Learn Set up and familiarize yourself with all the tools you need to be efficient with DevOps Design an application that is suitable for continuous deployment systems with DevOps in mind Test the code using automated regression testing with Jenkins Selenium Managing the lifecycle of hosts, from creation to ongoing management using Puppet Razor Find out how to manage, use, and work with Code in the Git version management system See what traps, pitfalls, and hurdles to look out for as you implement continuous delivery and DevOps In Detail Harness the power of DevOps to boost your skill set and make your IT organization perform better. If you're keen to employ DevOps techniques to better your software development, this course contains all you need to overcome the day-to-day complications of managing complex infrastructures the DevOps way. Start with your first module – Practical DevOps - that encompasses the entire flow from code from testing to production. Get a solid ground-level knowledge of how to monitor code for any anomalies, perform code testing, and make sure the code is running smoothly through a series of real-world exercise, and develop practical skills by creating a sample enterprise Java application. In the second module, run through a series of tailored mini-tutorials designed to give you a complete understanding of every DevOps automation technique. Create real change in the way you deliver your projects by utilizing some of the most commendable software available today. Go from your first steps of managing code in Git to configuration management in Puppet, monitoring using Sensu, and more. In the final module, get to grips with the continuous delivery techniques that will help you reduce the time and effort that goes into the delivery and support of software. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: Practical DevOps by Joakim Verona DevOps Automation Cookbook by Michael Duffy Continuous Delivery and DevOps : A Quickstart Guide - Second Edition by Paul Swartout Style and approach This course is an easy to follow project based guide for all those with a keen interest in deploying world-class software using some of the most effective and remarkable technologies available.
Author : Fabio Alessandro Locati
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1786462095
Learn everything you need to manage and handle your systems with ease with Ansible 2 using this comprehensive guide About This Book Simplify the automation of applications and systems using the newest version of Ansible Get acquainted with fundamentals of Ansible such as playbooks, modules, and various testing strategies A comprehensive, learning guide that provides you with great skills to automate your organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2 Who This Book Is For The book is for sys admins who want to automate their organization's infrastructure using Ansible 2. No prior knowledge of Ansible is required. What You Will Learn Set up Ansible 2 and an Ansible 2 project in a future-proof way Perform basic operations with Ansible 2 such as creating, copying, moving, changing, and deleting files, and creating and deleting users Deploy complete cloud environments using Ansible 2 on AWS and DigitalOcean Explore complex operations with Ansible 2 (Ansible vault, e-mails, and Nagios) Develop and test Ansible playbooks Write a custom module and test it In Detail Ansible is an open source automation platform that assists organizations with tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and task automation. With Ansible, even complex tasks can be handled easier than before. In this book, you will learn about the fundamentals and practical aspects of Ansible 2 by diving deeply into topics such as installation (Linux, BSD, and Windows Support), playbooks, modules, various testing strategies, provisioning, deployment, and orchestration. In this book, you will get accustomed with the new features of Ansible 2 such as cleaner architecture, task blocks, playbook parsing, new execution strategy plugins, and modules. You will also learn how to integrate Ansible with cloud platforms such as AWS. The book ends with the enterprise versions of Ansible, Ansible Tower and Ansible Galaxy, where you will learn to interact Ansible with different OSes to speed up your work to previously unseen levels By the end of the book, you'll able to leverage the Ansible parameters to create expeditious tasks for your organization by implementing the Ansible 2 techniques and paradigms. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step learning guide on the all new Ansible 2, which is an ideal configuration management tool.
Author : Jussi Heinonen
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1784391247
Build intelligent software stacks with the Puppet configuration management suite About This Book Develop high-quality Puppet modules in an isolated development environment Manage complex development environments with industry-leading configuration management tool A comprehensive guide to get you started with Puppet development and deployment in virtual environments Who This Book Is For If you are new to configuration management and IT automation processes and are looking for better ways to manage system configuration changes at scale, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Linux System Administration is a prerequisite. What You Will Learn Manage your system with Puppet instantly Develop Puppet in an isolated development environment Make your manifests reusable to avoid re-inventing the wheel Automate monitoring to improve the user experience through increased uptime Enable nodes to communicate with each other via Puppet Master Make environment configuration dynamic using stored configurations and PuppetDB Extend Puppet beyond the built-in functionalities Manage your environment through the Puppet Enterprise console In Detail Puppet is a cross-platform, open source configuration management utility, which runs on various Unix, Linux, and Windows Microsoft platforms. It allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control of what you do to each node, and also when and how you do it. You'll be able to build and manage development, test, and production environments independently without requiring previous system administration experience. Learning Puppet is a step-by-step guide on how to get started with Puppet development and use Puppet modules as the building blocks to deploy production-ready application cluster in virtual environment. You will begin with the installation of development environment on the VirtualBox hypervisor and Puppet Learning VM that will be used as the platform for testing and development of Puppet modules. Next, you will learn how to manage virtual machines and snapshots effectively and enhance the development experience with advanced VirtualBox features. Later the book will focus on Puppet module development in detail. You will be guided through the process of utilizing existing modules that are available in the public module repository, write your own modules and use them to deploy a real-world web application that includes features such as monitoring and load balancing. You will then learn to scale your environment and turn your static configuration into a dynamic one through stored configurations and PuppetDB. Finally, the book will provide you with practical advice on Puppet troubleshooting and managing your environment with the wealth of features provided by the Puppet Enterprise console. Style and approach A comprehensive introductory guide to help you manage your infrastructure with Puppet. All instructions and explanations are supported with screenshots and code examples to ensure you get an easy start with Puppet.
Author : Wojciech Kocjan
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1849510970
Build network-aware applications using Tcl, a powerful dynamic programming language.
