Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring

Including Plug-Ins and Hardware Devices

Syngress, ISBN #9781597492676

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Read-Only User Patch

Derrick Bennett has been maintaining a Nagios patch since release 2.x that allows a Nagios administrator to give very limited anonymous access to the Nagios CGI programs; the patch disallows the read-only user from seeing operator-supplied comments or from taking any action from the Nagios GUI.

Download the Nagios Read-Only User patch

The focus of the book is on integrating Nagios into larger organizations; in the book we discuss the following topics related to Nagios:

• New Features in Nagios 3
• Designing Configurations for Large Organizations
• Scaling Nagios
• Enterprise Integration of Nagios with Other Software Packages
• Nagios Plugin Cookbook with a focus on SNMP
• Intrusion Detection and Security Analysis with Nagios
• Add-ons and Enhancements
• Case Study

The book was published in May, 2008. We worked hard to make this not 'just another basic how-to install / paraphrase of documentation' book. We had a lot of fun writing it and we hope that those of you who read it find it to be both educational and useful.

The authors on this book are:

• Derrick Bennett
• Jonathan Gines
• Andrew Hay
• Max Schubert
• John Strand

Everyone on the team made this a very interesting project. Each of us had something useful to add and we all had different approaches and views of Nagios; the variety of views make this book very interesting. We also delivered a tremendous amount of writing and code to Syngress in a very short time and everyone pulled together to meet deadlines in a very amicable and professional manner.

Our list of thank yous to people who did not make it into the acknowledgements in the book.

The Team

We would like to thank Andrew Williams, Matt Cater, and Brian Sawyer of Syngress for their help during and after the publication of the book, their support is very much appreciated.

Max Schubert

Douglas Hussey, who set up two SunONE LDAP instances on his own time at home, populated them them with LDAP data, and gave me access to his network so I could write and test the LDAP scripts used in this book. Thank you, sir.