Nagios Books

Check out these Nagios publications and gain advanced insight into
configuration methods and advanced features of Nagios
Several books have been written about Nagios over the years. Some authors have worked at Nagios, others are simply enthusiasts. All of them are experts. Check out this list of books we compiled of some of the best Nagios reads out there.
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Nagios Core Administration Cookbook – Second Edition

Packt Publishing has released Nagios Core Administration Cookbook – Second Edition written by Tom Ryder in February of 2016

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Learning Nagios – Third Edition

Packt Publishing has released Learning Nagios – Third Edition written by Wojciech Kocjan & Piotr Beltowski in August of 2016

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Learning Nagios 4

Packt Publishing has released Learning Nagios 4 written by Wojciech Kocjan in March of 2014.

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Nagios: Building Enterprise-Grade Monitoring Infrastructures for Systems and Networks

Prentice Hall has released Nagios: Building Enterprise-Grade Monitoring Infrastructures for Systems and Networks written by David Josephsen in March of 2013.

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Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Packt Publishing has released Nagios Core Administration Cookbook written by Tom Ryder in January of 2013.

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Instant Nagios Starter

Packt Publishing has released Instant Nagios Starter written by Michael Guthrie in May of 2013.

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Learning Nagios 3.0

Packt Publishing has released Learning Nagios 3.0 written by Wojciech Kocjan in October of 2008.

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Integrated Monitoring With Nagios (Japanese)

Shogo Sato has written a book on Nagios in Japanese called Nagios 統合監視[実践]リファレンス (roughly translated “Nagios Integrated Monitoring”).

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Nagios 3 Pour la Supervision et la Métrologie (French)

Shogo Sato has written a book on Nagios in Japanese called Nagios 統合監視[実践]リファレンス (roughly translated “Nagios Integrated Monitoring”).

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Praxisbuch Nagios (German)

Tobias Scherbaum has written a book on Nagios called Praxisbuch Nagios.

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NAGIOS et la Supervision Open Source (French)

Olivier Jan, a key organizer of the Nagios community in France, has written a book on Nagios called NAGIOS et la supervision Open Source.

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Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring

Several Nagios community members have contributed to a new book published by Syngress titled “Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring”.

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Linux Administration Handbook

Nagios is recommended on page 665-666 of the Linux Administration Handbook, 2nd Edition. Thanks to Jon Fox for bringing this to our attention.

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Building a Monitoring Infrastructure With Nagios

David Josephsen has written a book about Nagios titled “Building a Monitoring Infractructure With Nagios”. Click here for more information.

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Nagios 2.0 – Beginning to System and Network Monitoring

Shogo Sato has written an book about Nagios titled “Nagios 2.0 – Beginning to system and network monitoring”. The book is written in Japanese and covers installation, configuration, monitoring difference services (HTTP, SMTP..) and resources (Load, Processes..). Additionally, the book talks about integrating Nagios with other software such as pukiwiki, snmptt, and perfparse. More information can be found here.

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Nagios: System and Network Monitoring

Wolfgang Barth has written an excellent book on Nagios titled “Nagios: System and Network Monitoring”. The chapters cover a variety of topics in detail and I have no doubt that the book will act as a valuable resource to new and seasoned Nagios users alike. Check it out!

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Pro Nagios 2.0

James Turnbull has written a book titled “Pro Nagios 2.0” which describes how to architect Nagios installations, deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor a variety of assets. It also covers information on how to integrate Nagios with other OSS applications like MRTG and Snort. Click here for more information.

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Netzwerke mit Linux

Klaus Rodewig has written a book titled “Netzwerke mit Linux” which covers professional networking with Linux. Chapter 7 of the book covers installation, configuration and use of Nagios. The Appendix contains commented configuration-directives of Nagios files: nagios.cfg, cgi.cfg and directives for object templates.

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The Nagios Book

Chris Burgess has written “The Nagios Book”, which walks users through the process of setting up a Nagios installation from scratch. The book is available for free download – in both PDF and HTML format – here.

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Time Management for System Administrators

Nagios gets a mention in Chapter of Tom Limoncelli’s book titled “Time Management for System Administrators” (published by O’Reilly). The book was published in November, 2005. Thanks to L?szl? Garz? and Joshua Hunter for bringing this to my attention.

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Nagios: System- und Netzwerk-Monitoring

Wolfgang Barth wrote a book on Nagios titled Nagios: System- und Netzwerk-Monitoring for Open Source Press. The book was published in November, 2005 in German.

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Network Administrators Survival Guide

Nagios is mentioned in chapter 5 of a Cisco Press book titled Network Administrators Survival Guide. The book was published in October, 2005. Thanks to Anand Deveriya for bringing this to my attention.

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Essential SNMP, Second Edition

Nagios is mentioned in the second edition of O’Reilly’s “Essential SNMP“. The book was written by Douglas Mauro and Kevin Schmidt and published in September, 2005.

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Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security

Nagios is briefly mentioned in the chapter 4 of O’Reilly’s “Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security“. Readers are taken through Nagios installation and high-level configuration of both the server component and remote checks using NRPE. The book was written by Yanek Korff, Paco Hope and Bruce Potter and was published in March, 2005.

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Network Security Hacks

Nagios is mentioned in the first 8 pages in chapter 5 of O’Reilly’s “Network Security Hacks“. The book was written by Andrew Lockhart and published in April, 2004. Thanks to Michael Wise for brining this to my attention.

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Open Source Network Administration

Nagios is covered (along with other open source network admin packages) in a book by James Kretchmar titled “Open Source Network Administration“. The book was published in October, 2003.

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Automating UNIX and Linux Administration

Nagios is mentioned in a book by Kirk Bauer titled “Automating UNIX and Linux Administration“. The book was published in September, 2003. Thanks to Claire Connelly for bringing this to my attention.

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Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition

Nagios/Netsaint is mentioned on pages 503 to 511 of O’Reilly’s Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition. The book was published in August, 2002. Thanks to Marco Ramos for bringing this to my attention.

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Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition

Nagios/NetSaint is mentioned in O’Reilly’s Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition. Published in June of 2000.

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