Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy is the first book to introduce the powerful Puppet system administration tool. Author James Turnbull will guide you through Puppet’s key features, showing you how to install and configure the software, create automated Puppet tasks, known as recipes, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to your own needs. A bonus chapter is included covering the Facter library, which makes it a breeze to automate the retrieval of server configuration details such as IP and MAC addresses.
<h3>What you’ll learn</h3> <ul> <li>Properly install and configure Puppet in order to begin immediately maximizing its capabilities.</li> <li>Create reporting solutions to more easily monitor automated outcomes.</li> <li>Extend Puppet to perform tasks that are capable of suiting your organization’s specific needs.</li> <li>Use Facter to query server operating systems for key data such as IP addresses, server names, and MAC addresses.</li> </ul> <h3>Who is this book for?</h3>Ruby developers and system administrators seeking to manage
<h3>Related Titles</h3> <ul> <li>Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional</li> <li>Practical Ruby Gems</li> <li>Automating UNIX and Linux Administration</li> </ul>]]>Written in a similar manner to Hardening Windows and Hardening Apache, complete with checklists and reference-style chapters, Hardeing Linux shows Apress’ commitment to publishing books that appeal to the security professional.
]]>If you want to implement a SOHO or SMB Linux infrastructure, Pro Linux System Administration clearly demonstrates everything you need. You’ll find this book also provides a solid framework to move forward and expand your business and associated IT capabilities, and you’ll benefit from the expertise and experienced guidance of the authors. Pro Linux System Administration covers
<ul> <li>An introduction to using Linux and free and open source software to cheaply and efficiently manage your business</li> <li>A layered model that allows your infrastructure to grow with your business</li> <li>Easy and simple–to–understand instructions including configurations, examples, and extensive real–world hints and tips</li> </ul>This book will explain and demonstrate
<ul> <li>Linux architecture</li> <li>How to build, back up, and recover Linux servers</li> <li>Creating basic networks and network services with Linux</li> <li>Building and implementing Linux infrastructure and services including mail, web, databases, and file and print</li> <li>Implementing Linux security</li> <li>Understanding Linux performance and capacity planning issues</li> </ul>This book is for small to medium–sized business owners looking to run their own IT, system administrators considering migrating to Linux, and IT systems integrators looking for an extensible Linux infrastructure management approach.
<h3>About the Apress Pro Series</h3>The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.
You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
]]>Pro Nagios 2.0 explains how to install and administer Nagios, the web-based enterprise management tool that helps monitor Unix, Windows, network devices, infrastructure equipment, and applications. You'll learn how to architect Nagios installations, deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor a variety of assets, which include applications across a variety of platforms and operating systems. Nagios has the power to alert you to current and future incidents that could impact the availability, performance, and security of monitored assets.
The book's real-world configurations and supporting materials will enable you to deploy Nagios and integrate other tools (like MRTG and Snort) on a helpful step-by-step basis. Integrating Nagios with a variety of other tools can add more functionality to its internal monitoring and alerting capabilities. The book covers additional topics like security, redundancy and failover, and plug-in development. And it shows you how to create your own Nagios plug-ins, to monitor devices for which Nagios may not provide plug-ins.
]]> You thought there was nothing left on Earth to explore--but here are nearly 100 truly awesome sights on planet Earth that no guide book will take you near.
Drawn from the runaway-success blog googlesightseeing.com, these satellite camera discoveries include:
Plug Holes in the Mediterranean
Arizona's Boneyard
The White Snake of Baja
The Hole in the Coast of Mexico
Face of Jesus Found in Sand Dune
Area 51
Manmade marvels, bizarre natural formations, high-security areas and the simply uncategorizable but infinitely cool--here are some of the weirdest sights in the world.
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