Publisher: K-i-s-publishing

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MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers. A complete guide for achieving Mulesoft certification readiness and building AI-driven API solutions - Second Edition

Akshata Sawant, Arul Christhuraj Alphonse

Salesforce developers often need help with complex integrations to manage multi-cloud environments, data mapping, data security, API scalability, and real-time integration issues. Written by industry veterans with 20+ years of experience, this revised edition will help you overcome these challenges and unlock data with MuleSoft.In this second edition, you’ll learn about MuleSoft’s newest IDE (aka Anypoint Code Builder) and its tools and capabilities. The chapters will show you how to use AI-enabled APIs to maximize productivity, integration of Data Cloud with MuleSoft, Mule APIs with AI agents, and Mule AI Chain connectors. You’ll grasp the fundamentals of APIs and integration and confidently design your APIs, while also utilizing a no-code visual editor for API design to build your Mule applications using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Code Builder. The chapters will teach you about data transformation, API management, deployment models, and MuleSoft’s security features. Progressively, you’ll leverage MuleSoft connectors to integrate with Salesforce, Data Cloud, and other systems. You’ll explore AI-driven integrations and automation, and get practical tips to ace MuleSoft interviews and achieve MCD Level 1 certification.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement the entire API lifecycle and manage complex integrations with MuleSoft like a pro.

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MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers. A practitioner's guide to deploying MuleSoft APIs and integrations for Salesforce enterprise solutions

Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers will help you build state-of-the-art enterprise solutions with flexible and scalable integration capabilities using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform and Anypoint Studio. If you’re a Salesforce developer looking to get started with this useful tool, look no further. This book will get you up to speed in no time, leveling up your integration developer skills.This essential guide will first introduce you to the fundamentals of MuleSoft and API-led connectivity, before walking you through the API life cycle and the Anypoint Studio IDE. Once you have the IDE set up, you’ll be ready to create Mule applications. You’ll look at the core components of MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform, and before long you’ll know how to build, transform, secure, test, and deploy applications using the wide range of components available to you. Finally, you’ll learn about using connectors to integrate MuleSoft with Salesforce and to fulfill a number of use cases, which will be covered in depth, along with interview and certification tips.By the end of this book, you will be confident building MuleSoft integrations at an enterprise scale and be able to gain the fundamental MuleSoft certification – MCD.

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MuleSoft Platform Architect's Guide. A practical guide to using Anypoint Platform's capabilities to architect, deliver, and operate APIs

Jitendra Bafna, Jim Andrews

We’re living in the era of digital transformation, where organizations rely on APIs to enable innovation within the business and IT teams are asked to continue doing more with less. Written by Jim Andrews, a Mulesoft Evangelist, and Jitendra Bafna, a Senior Solution Architect with expertise in setting up Mulesoft, this book will help you deliver a robust, secure, and flexible enterprise API platform, supporting any required business outcome.You’ll start by exploring Anypoint Platform’s architecture and its capabilities for modern integration before learning how to align business outcomes with functional requirements and how non-functional requirements shape the architecture. You'll also find out how to leverage Catalyst and Accelerators for efficient development. You'll get to grips with hassle-free API deployment and hosting in CloudHub 1.0/2.0, Runtime Fabric Manager, and hybrid environments and familiarize yourself with advanced operating and monitoring techniques with API Manager and Anypoint Monitoring. The final chapters will equip you with best practices for tackling complex topics and preparing for the MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect exam.By the end of this book, you’ll understand Anypoint Platform’s capabilities and be able to architect solutions that deliver the desired business outcomes.

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Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance. Leverage Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware vSphere to build effective multi-cloud solutions

Jeroen Mulder

Multi-cloud has emerged as one of the top cloud computing trends, with businesses wanting to reduce their reliance on only one vendor. But when organizations shift to multiple cloud services without a clear strategy, they may face certain difficulties, in terms of how to stay in control, how to keep all the different components secure, and how to execute the cross-cloud development of applications. This book combines best practices from different cloud adoption frameworks to help you find solutions to these problems.With step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll begin by planning the foundation, creating the architecture, designing the governance model, and implementing tools, processes, and technologies to manage multi-cloud environments. You’ll then discover how to design workload environments using different cloud propositions, understand how to optimize the use of these cloud technologies, and automate and monitor the environments. As you advance, you’ll delve into multi-cloud governance, defining clear demarcation models and management processes. Finally, you’ll learn about managing identities in multi-cloud: who’s doing what, why, when, and where.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create, implement, and manage multi-cloud architectures with confidence

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Multi-Cloud Handbook for Developers. Learn how to design and manage cloud-native applications in AWS, Azure, GCP, and more

Subash Natarajan, Jeveen Jacob

Unleash the power of cloud computing with Multi-Cloud Handbook for Developers, your guide to mastering the nuances of cloud-native and multi-cloud, covering practical strategies for design, development, and management. Explore the essential concepts, challenges, and methodologies critical for navigating the complex landscape of modern cloud computing.Using core architectural and design principles (such as microservices and 12-factor architecture) and advanced strategies (such as distributed application design patterns, domain-driven design (DDD), and API-first strategies), you’ll learn how to build portable and efficient apps across various cloud platforms. You’ll understand how to leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), GitOps, and DevOps practices, along with containerization and orchestration techniques using Docker and Kubernetes. You’ll also get to grips with data, security, compliance, and cloud cost management strategies in multi-cloud environments.With real-world case studies, best practices, and insights into future trends, this book will equip you with the skills to develop, manage, troubleshoot, and innovate cloud-native applications across diverse cloud platforms, positioning you at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution.

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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects. Learn how to adopt and manage public clouds by leveraging BaseOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps - Second Edition

Jeroen Mulder

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your enterprise with the transformative power of multi-cloud adoption? As a cloud architect, you understand the challenges of navigating the vast array of cloud services and moving data and applications to public clouds. But with 'Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects, Second Edition', you'll gain the confidence to tackle these complexities head-on.This edition delves into the latest concepts of BaseOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps, including the use of the DevSecOps Maturity Model. You'll learn how to optimize costs and maximize security using the major public clouds - Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Examples of solutions by the increasingly popular Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud have been added in this edition. Plus, you will discover cutting-edge ideas like AIOps and GreenOps.With practical use cases, including IoT, data mining, Web3, and financial management, this book empowers you with the skills needed to develop, release, and manage products and services in a multi-cloud environment.By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the intricacies of multi-cloud operations, financial management, and security. Don't miss your chance to revolutionize your enterprise with multi-cloud adoption.

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Multimedia Programming Using Max/MSP and TouchDesigner. Design, build, and refine immersive audio-visual apps and performance environments

Patrik Lechner

Max 6 and TouchDesigner are both high-level visual programming languages based on the metaphor of connecting computational objects with patch cords. This guide will teach you how to design and build high-quality audio-visual systems in Max 6 and TouchDesigner, giving you competence in both designing and using these real-time systems. In the first few chapters, you will learn the basics of designing tools to generate audio-visual experiences through easy-to-follow instructions aimed at beginners and intermediate. Then, we combine tools such as Gen, Jitter, and TouchDesigner to work along with Max 6 to create 2D and 3D visualizations, this book provides you with tutorials based on creating generative art synchronized to audio. By the end of the book, you will be able to design and structure highly interactive, real-time systems.

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Multimedia Programming with Pure Data. A comprehensive guide for digital artists for creating rich interactive multimedia applications using Pure Data

Bryan, Wai-ching CHUNG

Preparing interactive displays, creating computer games, and conducting audio-visual performance are now achievable without typing lines of code. With Pure Data, a graphical programming environment, creating interactive multimedia applications is just visually connecting graphical icons together. It is straightforward, intuitive, and effective. Multimedia Programming with Pure Data will show you how to create interactive multimedia applications. You will learn how to author various digital media, such as images, animations, audio, and videos together to form a coherent title. From simple to sophisticated interaction techniques, you will learn to apply these techniques in your practical multimedia projects. You start from making 2D and 3D computer graphics and proceed to animation, multimedia presentation, interface design, and more sophisticated computer vision applications with interactivity. With Pure Data and GEM, you will learn to produce animations with 2D digital imagery, 3D modelling, and particle systems. You can also design graphical interfaces, and use live video for motion tracking applications. Furthermore, you will learn Audio signal processing, which forms the key aspect to multimedia content creation. Last but not least, Network programming using Pure Data extension libraries explores applications to other portable devices.

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Multiplayer Game Development with Unreal Engine 5. Create compelling multiplayer games with C++, Blueprints, and Unreal Engine's networking features

Marco Secchi

If you’re fascinated by the immersive gaming experiences that enable multiple users to engage in collaborative or competitive gameplay, this Unreal Engine 5 game development book is for you.In this book, you’ll learn the foundational principles behind multiplayer games. Starting with a sample project, you’ll learn how to set up a networked system and make it work. Once the prototype of the project is functional, you’ll start adding game logic, including obstacles and AI opponents, to heighten the challenges and engagement, offering a captivating experience for players. Next, you’ll learn how to debug and optimize the project, before finally deploying the game build and integrating it with cloud services such as the Epic Online Services system.By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence to develop and manage multiplayer experiences using the Unreal Engine environment, taking your newfound programming skills in your upcoming projects.

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Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook. Multithreaded programming can seem overwhelming but this book clarifies everything through its cookbook approach. Packed with practical tasks, it's the quick and easy way to start delving deep into the power of multithreading in C#

Evgenii Agafonov

In an age when computer processors are being developed to contain more and more cores, multithreading is a key factor for creating scalable, effective, and responsive applications. If you fail to do it correctly, it can lead to puzzling problems that take a huge amount of time to resolve. Therefore, having a solid understanding of multithreading is a must for the modern application developer. Multithreading in C# 5.0 Cookbook is an easy-to-understand guide to the most puzzling programming problems. This book will guide you through practical examples dedicated to various aspects of multithreading in C# on Windows and will give you a good basis of practical knowledge which you can then use to program your own scalable and reliable multithreaded applications. This book guides you through asynchronous and parallel programming from basic examples to practical, real-world solutions to complex problems. You will start from the very beginning, learning what a thread is, and then proceed to learn new concepts based on the information you get from the previous examples.After describing the basics of threading, you will be able to grasp more advanced concepts like Task Parallel Library and C# asynchronous functions. Then, we move towards parallel programming, starting with basic data structures and gradually progressing to the more advanced patterns. The book concludes with a discussion of the specifics of Windows 8 application programming, giving you a complete understanding of how Windows 8 applications are different and how to program asynchronous applications for Windows 8.

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Multithreading with C# Cookbook. Quick answers to common problems - Second Edition

Evgenii Agafonov

Multi-core processors are synonymous with computing speed and power in today’s world, which is why multithreading has become a key concern for C# developers. Multithreaded code helps you create effective, scalable, and responsive applications.This is an easy-to-follow guide that will show you difficult programming problems in context. You will learn how to solve them with practical, hands-on, recipes. With these recipes, you’ll be able to start creating your own scalable and reliable multithreaded applications. Starting from learning what a thread is, we guide you through the basics and then move on to more advanced concepts such as task parallel libraries, C# asynchronous functions, and much more.Rewritten to the latest C# specification, C# 6, and updated with new and modern recipes to help you make the most of the hardware you have available, this book will help you push the boundaries of what you thought possible in C#.

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Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio. Learn music production, compose orchestral music, and launch your music career

Joshua Au-Yeung

FL Studio is a cutting-edge software music production environment and a powerful and easy-to-use tool for composing music. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll discover how to use FL Studio's tools and techniques to design exciting soundtracks for your films, TV shows, video games, and much more.You'll start by understanding the business of composing, learning how to communicate, score, market your services, land gigs, and deliver music projects for clients like a professional. Next, you'll set up your studio environment, navigate key tools, such as the channel rack, piano roll, playlist, mixer, and browser, and export songs. The book then advances to show you how to compose orchestral music using MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) programming, with a dedicated section to string instruments. You’ll create sheet music using MuseScore for live musicians to play your compositions. Later, you’ll learn about the art of Foley for recording realistic sound effects, create adaptive music that changes throughout video games, and design music to trigger specific emotions, for example, scary music to terrify your listener. Finally, you'll work on a sample project that will help you prepare for your composing career.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create professional soundtrack scores for your films and video games.

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MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF. If you’re using Silverlight and WPF, then employing the MVVM pattern can make a powerful difference to your projects, reducing code and bugs in one. This book is an invaluable resource for serious developers

Muhammad Shujaat Siddiqi, Ryan Vice

MVVM (Model View View Model) is a Microsoft best practices pattern for working in WPF and Silverlight that is highly recommended by both Microsoft and industry experts alike. This book will look at the reasons for the pattern still being slow to become an industry standard, addressing the pain points of MVVM. It will help Silverlight and WPF programmers get up and running quickly with this useful pattern.MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF will help you to choose the best MVVM approach for your project while giving you the tools, techniques, and confidence that you will need to succeed. Implementing MVVM can be a challenge, and this book will walk you through the main issues you will come across when using the pattern in real world enterprise applications.This book will help you to improve your WPF and Silverlight application design, allowing you to tackle the many challenges in creating presentation architectures for enterprise applications. You will be given examples that show the strengths and weaknesses of each of the major patterns. The book then dives into a full 3 tier enterprise implementation of MVVM and takes you through the various options available and trade-offs for each approach. During your journey you will see how to satisfy all the demands of modern WPF and Silverlight enterprise applications including scalability, testability, extensibility, and blendability.Complete your transition from ASP.NET and WinForms to Silverlight and WPF by embracing the new tools of these platforms, and the new design style that they allow for. MVVM Survival Guide for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF will get you up to speed and ready to take advantage of this powerful new presentation platform.

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MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development. Extend MySQL to suit your needs with this unique guide into the world of MySQL plugins

Sergei Golubchik, Andrew Hutchings, Andrew Hutchings, Sergii...

MySQL has introduced a Plugin API with its latest version – a robust, powerful, and easy way of extending the server functionality with loadable modules on the fly. But until now anyone wishing to develop a plugin would almost certainly need to dig into the MySQL source code and search the Web for missing bits of the information.This is the first book on the MySQL Plugin API. Written together with one of the Plugin API primary architects, it contains all the details you need to build a plugin. It shows what a plugin should contain and how to compile, install, and package it. Every chapter illustrates the material with thoroughly explained source code examples.Starting from the basic features, common to all plugin types, and the structure of the plugin framework, this book will guide you through the different plugin types, from simple examples to advanced ones. Server monitoring, full-text search in JPEG comments, typo-tolerant searches, getting the list of all user variables, system usage statistics, or a complete storage engine with indexes – these and other plugins are developed in different chapters of this book, demonstrating the power and versatility of the MySQL Plugin API and explaining the intricate details of MySQL Plugin programming.

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MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide. Effective guide to administering high-performance MySQL 8 solutions

Chintan Mehta, Ankit K Bhavsar, Hetal Oza,...

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the world today. The recently released version 8.0 brings along some major advancements in the way your MySQL solution can be administered. This handbook will be your companion to understand the newly introduced features in MySQL and show you how you can leverage them to design a high-performance MySQL solution for your organization.This book starts with a brief introduction to the new features in MySQL 8, and then quickly jumping onto the crucial administration topics that you will find useful in your day-to-day work. Topics such as migrating to MySQL 8, MySQL benchmarking, achieving high performance by implementing the indexing techniques, and optimizing your queries are covered in this book. You will also learn how to perform replication, scale your MySQL solution and implement effective security techniques. There is also a special section on the common and not so common troubleshooting techniques for effective MySQL administration is also covered in this book. By the end of this highly practical book, you will have all the knowledge you need to tackle any problem you might encounter while administering your MySQL solution.

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MySQL 8 Cookbook. Over 150 recipes for high-performance database querying and administration

Karthik Appigatla

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the World today. The recently released MySQL 8 version promises to be better and more efficient than ever before.This book contains everything you need to know to be the go-to person in your organization when it comes to MySQL. Starting with a quick installation and configuration of your MySQL instance, the book quickly jumps into the querying aspects of MySQL. It shows you the newest improvements in MySQL 8 and gives you hands-on experience in managing high-transaction and real-time datasets. If you've already worked with MySQL before and are looking to migrate your application to MySQL 8, this book will also show you how to do that. The book also contains recipes on efficient MySQL administration, with tips on effective user management, data recovery, security, database monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and more.With quick solutions to common and not-so-common problems you might encounter while working with MySQL 8, the book contains practical tips and tricks to give you the edge over others in designing, developing, and administering your database effectively.

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MySQL 8 for Big Data. Effective data processing with MySQL 8, Hadoop, NoSQL APIs, and other Big Data tools

Shabbir Challawala, Chintan Mehta, Kandarp Patel, Jaydip...

With organizations handling large amounts of data on a regular basis, MySQL has become a popular solution to handle this structured Big Data. In this book, you will see how DBAs can use MySQL 8 to handle billions of records, and load and retrieve data with performance comparable or superior to commercial DB solutions with higher costs.Many organizations today depend on MySQL for their websites and a Big Data solution for their data archiving, storage, and analysis needs. However, integrating them can be challenging. This book will show you how to implement a successful Big Data strategy with Apache Hadoop and MySQL 8. It will cover real-time use case scenario to explain integration and achieve Big Data solutions using technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Sqoop, and MySQL Applier. Also, the book includes case studies on Apache Sqoop and real-time event processing.By the end of this book, you will know how to efficiently use MySQL 8 to manage data for your Big Data applications.

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MySQL for Python. Integrating MySQL and Python can bring a whole new level of productivity to your applications. This practical tutorial shows you how with examples and explanations that clarify even the most difficult concepts

Albert Lukaszewski

Python is a dynamic programming language, which is completely enterprise ready, owing largely to the variety of support modules that are available to extend its capabilities. In order to build productive and feature-rich Python applications, we need to use MySQL for Python, a module that provides database support to our applications. Although you might be familiar with accessing data in MySQL, here you will learn how to access data through MySQL for Python efficiently and effectively.This book demonstrates how to boost the productivity of your Python applications by integrating them with the MySQL database server, the world's most powerful open source database. It will teach you to access the data on your MySQL database server easily with Python's library for MySQL using a practical, hands-on approach. Leaving theory to the classroom, this book uses real-world code to solve real-world problems with real-world solutions.The book starts by exploring the various means of installing MySQL for Python on different platforms and how to use simple database querying techniques to improve your programs. It then takes you through data insertion, data retrieval, and error-handling techniques to create robust programs. The book also covers automation of both database and user creation, and administration of access controls. As the book progresses, you will learn to use many more advanced features of Python for MySQL that facilitate effective administration of your database through Python. Every chapter is illustrated with a project that you can deploy in your own situation.By the end of this book, you will know several techniques for interfacing your Python applications with MySQL effectively so that powerful database management through Python becomes easy to achieve and easy to maintain.

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MySQL Management and Administration with Navicat. Master the tools you thought you knew and discover the features you never knew existed with this book and

Gökhan Ozar

Any database designer who wants to accomplish both everyday tasks and more advanced actions with a few clicks or drag-and-drops can now do so using Navicat's advanced tools and this book.Starting with the basics before progressing with advanced features, this book can be read from cover to cover, or simply used as a reference guide for any problems you encounter.The book features 'work along' tutorials, some of which will surprise you by revealing features of Navicat which you may never have known existed ñ features such as designing functions and stored procedures, event triggers, creating batch jobs and scheduling.MySQL Management and Administration with Navicat is an ideal resource to master Navicat and unlock its true potential.

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Na imię jej było Lily

Bohdan Tymieniecki

Autor „Na imię jej było Lily” Bohdan Tymieniecki walczył na licznych frontach II wojny światowej, a rozpoczął swoją wojaczkę kampanią wrześniową w 1939 roku. Następnie, po klęsce armii polskiej uciekł przez południową granicę na Węgry i następnie przedostał się do Francji, gdzie uczestniczył w kolejnej klęsce. Jak wspomina, jego oddział jako jeden z nielicznych został ewakuowany z Dunkierki z pełnym wyposażeniem i stanem osobowym, jako pełna jednostka. W Wielkiej Brytanii nie zagrzał jednak długo miejsca. Los wkrótce rzucił go na Bliski Wschód, gdzie z piechociarza przekształcił się w instruktora broni pancernej, z którą związał się do końca wojny Zmarł w Londynie w 1992 roku. Służbę zakończył w stopniu podpułkownika. Za dokonania na frontach II wojny światowej został dwukrotnie odznaczony Virtuti Militari. Po wojnie mieszkał na emigracji w Wielkiej Brytanii. Do ojczyzny wrócił dopiero po śmierci – pochowany jest na warszawskich Powązkach.

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Na ratunek Skaliuszowi

Iwona Banach

Audiobook dla odważnych przedszkolaków "Na ratunek Skaliuszowi" to druga część serii "Z innej bajki, czyli opowieści dla małych i dużych potworków". Nasze dzielne przedszkolaki jadą na wymianę do przedszkola Mordka "Bajkowe Stwory" zbudowanego z samych słodkości. Tym razem muszą odnaleźć zaginionego trolla Skaliusza, najlepszego przyjaciela Mordka, który zaginął w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach. Została po nim jedynie wielka dziura w drzewie, a na przedszkolaki czekają pułapki, grasujący żabodźwiedź i lemoniadowe tsunami.

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Nagios Core Administration Cookbook. Over 90 hands-on recipes that will employ Nagios Core as the anchor of monitoring on your network - Second Edition

Tom Ryder

Nagios Core is an open source monitoring framework suitable for any network that ensures both internal and customer-facing services are running correctly and manages notification and reporting behavior to diagnose and fix outages promptly. It allows very fine configuration of exactly when, where, what, and how to check network services to meet both the uptime goals of your network and systems team and the needs of your users.This book shows system and network administrators how to use Nagios Core to its fullest as a monitoring framework for checks on any kind of network services, from the smallest home network to much larger production multi-site services. You will discover that Nagios Core is capable of doing much more than pinging a host or to see whether websites respond. The recipes in this book will demonstrate how to leverage Nagios Core's advanced configuration, scripting hooks, reports, data retrieval, and extensibility to integrate it with your existing systems, and to make it the rock-solid center of your network monitoring world.

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Nagios Core Administration Cookbook. The ideal book for System Administrators who want to move their network monitoring to an advanced level. This book covers the powerful features and flexibility of Nagios Core, and its recipes can be applied to virtually any network

Tom Ryder

Network monitoring requires significantly more than just pinging hosts. This cookbook will help you to comprehensively test your networks' major functions on a regular basis.Nagios Core Administration Cookbook will show you how to use Nagios Core as a monitoring framework that understands the layers and subtleties of the network for intelligent monitoring and notification behaviour. Nagios Core Administration Guide introduces the reader to methods of extending Nagios Core into a network monitoring solution. The book begins by covering the basic structure of hosts, services, and contacts and then goes on to discuss advanced usage of checks and notifications, and configuring intelligent behaviour with network paths and dependencies. The cookbook emphasizes using Nagios Core as an extensible monitoring framework. By the end of the book, you will learn that Nagios Core is capable of doing much more than pinging a host or to check if websites respond.