Unix Fault Management Administrator's Handbook

by Brad Stone, Julie Symons

-- Establishing cost-effective, reliable system monitoring procedures on any UNIX system -- including clusters.-- Identifying, investigating, and recovering from server problems.-- Specific approaches to monitoring systems, disks, networks, applications, and databases -- including best practices for enterprise-class UNIX installations!If you're responsible for maintaining the integrity and availability of a mission-critical UNIX system, this is the first book that brings together all the information you need most. UNIX Fault Management Administrator's Handbook describes exactly how to implement appropriate, cost-effective system monitoring on any UNIX server, including systems configured as high availability clusters. You'll find detailed descriptions of fault monitoring tools and monitoring frameworks to help you make better purchasing decisions; a detailed overview of the monitoring tasks operators perform; and specific techniques for investigating and recovering from problems. The book includes coverage of monitoring systems, disks, networks, applications, and databases, as well as specific fault management techniques for large-scale enterprises.

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1999

About the author

I am the senior executive editor for global technology coverage at Bloomberg and the author of "Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire," published in May 2021 by Simon and Schuster.

The book is a sequel to my earlier work, "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon," which won the Book of the Year Award in 2013 from The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs. I'm also the author of The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley.

Over the last few years, I have authored a few dozen cover or feature stories for Bloomberg Businessweek on companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Costco and the Chinese tech companies Didi, Baidu and Xiaomi. I joined the magazine from the New York Times, where I covered Silicon Valley from the newspaper's San Francisco bureau. Before that, I was a reporter for the once proud magazine known as Newsweek. I am also the author of a previous work of non-fiction, Gearheads, which the San Francisco Chronicle selected as one of the best books of 2003.

I graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and am originally from Cleveland, Ohio. I've lived in San Francisco for over 20 years but I'm still a Clevelander at heart- or should I say, at heartbreak, since the sports teams always manage to lose big (except the Cavs!) I have twin daughters and am teaching them to root for Cleveland teams as well because I believe adversity builds character. I hope you enjoy my books. Feel free to write me at brad.stone at gmail to let me know what you think.