A new book designed for SysAdmins, Operations staff, Developers and DevOps who are interested in deploying a log management solution using the open source tool Logstash. In this book we will walk you through installing, deploying, managing and extending Logstash. We'll teach you how to: * Install and deploy Logstash. * Ship events from a Logstash Shipper to a central Logstash server. * Filter incoming events using a variety of techniques. * Output those events to a selection of useful destinations. * Use Logstash's awesome web interface Kibana. * Scale out your Logstash implementation as your environment grows. * Quickly and easily extend Logstash to deliver additional functionality you might need. By the end of the book you should have a functional and effective log management solution that you can deploy into your own environment.

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Pro Puppet is an in-depth guide to installing, using, and developing the popular configuration management tool Puppet. The book is a comprehensive follow-up to the previous title Pulling Strings with Puppet. Puppet provides a way to automate everything from user management to server configuration. You'll learn how to create Puppet recipes, extend Puppet, and use Facter to gather configuration data from your servers.

Puppet is a must-have tool for system administrators, and Pro Puppet will teach you how to maximize its capabilities and customize it for your environment.

• Install and configure Puppet to immediately start automating tasks and create reporting solutions
• Learn insider tricks and techniques to better manage your infrastructure
• Become a Puppet expert!

Hardening is the process of protecting a system and its applications against unknown threats. And Hardening Linux will explain the main steps that any Network or Systems Administrator needs to take, to protect his computers that run on Linux. This book discusses security of mail servers, web servers, and file servers, as well as hardening IP tables and remote access functionality.

Pulling Strings with Puppet: Automated System Administration Done Right 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.

Nagios 2.0 Administration explains how to install and administer Nagios, and architect Nagios installations. The book also covers how to deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor a variety of different assets. These assets include applications across a variety of platforms and operating systems, Additional topics include security, redundancy and failover, integration with other tools (like MRTG and Snort), and plug-in development.

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Nagios 2.0 Administration explains how to install and administer Nagios, and architect Nagios installations. The book also covers how to deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor a variety of different assets. These assets include applications across a variety of platforms and operating systems, Additional topics include security, redundancy and failover, integration with other tools (like MRTG and Snort), and plug-in development.