<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Lee Azzarello wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:16b031c0902041606n3b977f1cyc5b1c3143b9c3fd6@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Paul Weaver <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:paul.weaver@bbc.co.uk"><paul.weaver@bbc.co.uk></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:25 AM, James Miller wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">knowledge to the </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">next level. I've found the following books available and I'm wondering which ones are the best: </pre> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Any suggestions would be _greatly_ appreciated! </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">5. This list. Try to discover the answer to as many questions as you can yourself by reading the docs and source and by trial. Try to understand the why of an answer you discover or provided by someone else. I consider it a much more interesting and varied resource than the few standard examples a book might have; plus it's free =). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Only once you reach a certain level. There are no doubt many lurkers who have trouble getting started. I know I did. I got a copy of "Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios" (Feb07) and found that invaluable, but we're still on nagios version 2 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Agreed. Dave Josephsen's book is excellent. I'm currently on the visualization chapter. It's very comprehensive and practical. He's opinionated enough to make reading chapters interesting. -lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> I agree about the book. You may like to know that Dave Josephsen has also written some excellent articles in ;login: (the Journal of USENIX <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.usenix.org">http://www.usenix.org</a>). Unfortunately, all but the first article (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2007-08/pdfs/josephsen.pdf">http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2007-08/pdfs/josephsen.pdf</a>) are only available to members at this time. Steve Burton. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ </body> </html>