I’ve just finished reading “Learning Nagios 3.0″ by Wojciech Kocjan and published by Packt Publishing, and this is a great book for anyone interested in nagios. This is a beginner level book that introduces nagios to new users interested in monitoring their infrastructure, but it will also present advanced features that even more experienced sysadmins can benefit from. All these in a pretty compact book, at 301 pages.

The topics are as follows:

• Introduction
• Installation and Configuration
• Using the Nagios Web Interface
• Overview of Nagios Plugins
• Advanced Configuration
• Notifications and Events
• Passive Checks and NSCA
• Monitoring Remote Hosts
• SNMP
• Advanced Monitoring
• Extending Nagios

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I’ve just finished reading Lighttpd by Andre Bogus and published by Packt Publishing, and this is a great book for anyone interested in lighttpd. This is a good read and it will explain all the features of lighttpd and how you can use it from just serving static files to a complete apache replacement. And all these in a pretty compact book, at 223 pages.

The topics are as follows:

• Introduction to Lighttpd
• Configuring and Running Lighttpd
• More Virtual Hosting and CGI
• Downloads and Streams
• Big Brother Lighttpd
• Encryption: SSL
• Securing Lighttpd
• Containing Lighttpd
• Optimizing Lighttpd
• Migration from Apache
• CGI Revisited
• Using Lua with Lighttpd
• Writing Lighttpd Modules

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