Book description
In Open Source Network Administration, MIT netadmin James M. Kretchmar introduces an extraordinary collection of open source tools for streamlining and improving network management, monitoring, alerting, optimization, troubleshooting, and much more. Kretchmar provides detailed explanations, plus easy instructions for retrieval, installation from source, configuration, and usage. He covers SNMP, MRTG, Neo, Flow-Tools, Oak, Sysmon, Nagios, Tcpdump, and much more-even building your own tools with Perl. An indispensable resource for every network administrator.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Prentice Hall PTR Series in Computer Networking and Distributed Systems
- About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. SNMP
- 3. MRTG
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4. Neo
- 4.1. Overview of Neo
- 4.2. What Neo Can Help You Do
- 4.3. Installing Neo
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4.4. Using Neo
- 4.4.1. The Command Prompt
- 4.4.2. The Location Syntax
- 4.4.3. Variables
- 4.4.4. The Arpfind Command
- 4.4.5. The Locate Command
- 4.4.6. The Port Command
- 4.4.7. The Device Summary Command
- 4.4.8. The Device Info Command
- 4.4.9. The Stats Command
- 4.4.10. Online Help
- 4.4.11. Command Line Arguments
- 4.4.12. Other Commands
- 4.4.13. Using Neo in Degraded Network Conditions
- 4.5. Examples of Use
- 4.6. Maintaining Neo
- 4.7. References and Further Study
- 5. NetFlow
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6. Oak
- 6.1. Overview of Oak
- 6.2. What Oak Can Help You Do
- 6.3. Installing Oak
- 6.4. Using Oak
- 6.5. Maintaining Oak
- 6.6. References and Further Study
- 7. Service Monitoring
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8. Tcpdump
- 8.1. Overview of Tcpdump
- 8.2. What Tcpdump Can Help You Do
- 8.3. Installing Tcpdump
- 8.4. Using Tcpdump
- 8.5. Examples of Debugging with Tcpdump
- 8.6. Maintaining Tcpdump
- 8.7. Other Packet Analyzers
- 8.8. References and Further Study
- 9. Basic Tools
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10. Custom Tools
- 10.1. Basics of Scripting
- 10.2. The Bourne Shell
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10.3. Perl
- 10.3.1. Basics of Perl
- 10.3.2. Using Variables
- 10.3.3. Local and Environment Variables
- 10.3.4. Conditionals
- 10.3.5. Text Manipulation
- 10.3.6. Lists
- 10.3.7. Hashes
- 10.3.8. Reading from a File
- 10.3.9. Writing to a File
- 10.3.10. Arguments
- 10.3.11. Loops
- 10.3.12. Using Command Output
- 10.3.13. Subroutines
- 10.3.14. Exiting
- 10.3.15. Perl for Network Monitoring Scripts
- 10.4. Programming Monitors
- 10.5. Running Programs from Cron
- 10.6. References and Further Study
Product information
- Title: Open Source Network Administration
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2003
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780130462107
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