Book Description

Nagios is a tool for system and network monitoring. It constantly checks other machines and various services on those machines. The main purpose of system monitoring is to detect and report any system not working properly as soon as possible so that you are aware of problems before a user runs into them. It is a modular and flexible solution that uses plug-ins to do its job.

The book is an introduction to Nagios that will teach readers to use Nagios with its advanced features. At the same time, readers who have already used earlier versions of Nagios will also benefit because they will learn about the new and advanced features of Nagios 3.

This book focuses on the new features of Nagios and will teach readers to secure their systems in a much improved manner.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand system monitoring and how Nagios works
• Install and configure Nagios to administer your network and system
• Deploy agents and plug-ins, and monitor assets with advanced features of Nagios
• Notify users of current and future incidents to protect the availability, performance, and security of monitored assets
• Configure and work your way around Nagios’s web interface
• Pass service and host check results over the network using NSCA
• Set up a working and usable distributed monitoring system using NSClient++ and NC_Net.
• Develop custom plug-ins responsible for doing the checks and analyzing results
• Use the web interface to manage scheduled downtimes for hosts and services
• Monitor UPS status over the network
• Use adaptive monitoring to modify various check-related parameters
• Use SSH and NRPE for doing remote checks
• Use SNMP to retrieve information from a device, set options, and also cover means for a device to notify other machines about a failure

Approach
This is a beginner-level book, which will introduce Nagios to System Administrators who are interested in monitoring their systems. The focus is on teaching system administrators to secure their systems in a much improved manner incorporating the newer features of Nagios.

It will teach Nagios beginners the basics of installation and configuration of version 3; it will show professionals who have already worked on earlier versions of Nagios the new features of Nagios like inheritance and also the new internal functions like better check scheduling.

Who this book is for
The target readers for this book are System Administrators interested in using Nagios. This book will introduce Nagios with the new features of Version 3 for System Administrators.

Book Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847195180
• ISBN-13: 978-1847195180

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Book Description

This is the only official, EC-Council-endorsed CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator) study guide. It was written for security professionals, systems administrators, IT consultants, legal professionals, IT managers, police and law enforcement personnel studying for the CHFI certification, and professionals needing the skills to identify an intruder’s footprints and properly gather the necessary evidence to prosecute. Key features include:

• The Only Official Study Guide for CHFI
  Provides 100% coverage of all exam objectives.
• Full Web-based Exam
  Modeled after the real exam, it also includes explanations of correct and incorrect answers.
• Exam Objectives
  Each is clearly explained at the beginning of the chapter.
• Notes and Alerts
  Highlight crucial points of the exam modules.
• Exam Objectives Fast Track
  Bulleted highlights emphasize the important points from the exam’s perspective at the end of the chapter.
• Key Terms
  All concepts are defined and explained as they appear.
• Exam Objectives Frequently Asked Questions
  Test what you have learned by reading FAQs based on the material covered in the chapter. Log on to the Syngress Web site to access review questions based on the exam.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Computer Forensics in Today’s World
Chapter 2. Systems, Disks, and Media
Chapter 3. The Computer Investigation Process
Chapter 4. Acquiring Data, Duplicating Data, and Recovering Deleted Files
Chapter 5. Windows, Linux, and Macintosh Boot Processes
Chapter 6. Windows and Linux Forensics
Chapter 7. Steganography and Application Password Crackers
Chapter 8. Computer-Assisted Attacks and Crimes
Chapter 9. Investigating Network Traffic and Investigating Logs
Chapter 10. Router Forensics and Network Forensics
Chapter 11. Investigating Wireless Attacks
Chapter 12. PDA, Blackberry, and iPod Forensics
Chapter 13. Forensic Software and Hardware
Chapter 14. Forensics Investigation Using EnCase
Chapter 15. Incident Response
Chapter 16. Types of Investigations

Appendix A. Becoming an Expert Witness
Appendix B. Worldwide Forensic Acts and Laws
Index

Book Details

• Paperback: 960 pages
• Publisher: Syngress (November 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597491977
• ISBN-13: 978-1597491976

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Book Description

A tactical guide to installing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting SSH in order to secure your network

Prevent unwanted hacker attacks! This detailed guide will show you how to strengthen your company system’s defenses, keep critical data secure, and add to the functionality of your network by deploying SSH. Security expert Himanshu Dwivedi shows you ways to implement SSH on virtually all operating systems, desktops, and servers, so your system is safe, secure, and stable. Learn how SSH fulfills all the core items in security, including authentication, authorization, encryption, integrity, and auditing. Also, discover methods to optimize the protocol for security and functionality on Unix®, Windows®, and network architecture environments. Additionally, find out about the similarities and differences of the major SSH servers and clients.

With the help of numerous architectural examples and case studies, you’ll gain the necessary skills to:

• Explore many remote access solutions, including the theory, setup, and configuration of port forwarding
• Take advantage of features such as secure e-mail, proxy, and dynamic port forwarding
• Use SSH on network devices that are traditionally managed by Telnet
• Utilize SSH as a VPN solution in both a server and client aspect
• Replace insecure protocols such as Rsh, Rlogin, and FTP
• Use SSH to secure Web browsing and as a secure wireless (802.11) solution

Table of Contents
Part 1: SSH Basics
Chapter 1. Overview of SSH
Chapter 2. SSH Servers
Chapter 3. Secure Shell Clients
Chapter 4. Authentication
Chapter 5. SSH Management

Part 2: Remote Access Solutions
Chapter 6. SSH Port Forwarding
Chapter 7. Secure Remote Access

Part 3: Protocol Replacement
Chapter 8. SSH Versatility
Chapter 9. Proxy Technologies in a secure Web Environment
Chapter 10. SSH Case Studies

Book Details

• Paperback: 402 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471458805
• ISBN-13: 978-0471458807

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Book Description

Addressing the fundamental technologies and theories associated with designing complex communications systems and networks, Principles of Communications Networks and Systemsprovides models and analytical methods for evaluating their performance. Including both the physical layer (digital transmission and modulation) and networking topics, the quality of service concepts belonging to the different layers of the protocol stack are interrelated to form a comprehensive picture.

The book is designed to present the material in an accessible but rigorous manner. It jointly addresses networking and transmission aspects following a unified approach and using a bottom up style of presentation, starting from requirements on transmission links all the way up to the corresponding quality of service at network and application layers. The focus is on presenting the material in an integrated and systematic fashion so that students will have a clear view of all the principal aspects and of how they interconnect with each other.

• A comprehensive introduction to communications systems and networks, addressing both network and transmission topics
• Structured for effective learning, with basic principles and technologies being introduced before more advanced ones are explained
• Features examples of existing systems and recent standards as well as advanced digital modulation techniques such as CDMA and OFDM
• Contains tools to help the reader in the design and performance analysis of modern communications systems
• Provides problems at the end of each chapter, with answers on an accompanying website

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Telecommunication Services, Networks and Signaling
Chapter 2. Deterministic and Random Signals
Chapter 3. Sources of Digital Information
Chapter 4. Characterization of Transmission Media and Devices
Chapter 5. Digital Modulation Systems
Chapter 6. Channel Coding and Capacity
Chapter 7. Markov Chains Theory
Chapter 8. Queueing Theory
Chapter 9. Data Link Layer
Chapter 10. Network Layers

Book Details

• Hardcover: 810 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (December 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470744316
• ISBN-13: 978-0470744314

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Book Description

Oracle Essbase is a Multi-Dimensional Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications. Oracle Essbase enables business users to quickly model complex business scenarios.

This practical cookbook shows you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further.

Packed with over 90 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to use a relational data model to build and load an Essbase cube and how to create a data source, prepare the mini schema, and work with the data elements in Essbase Studio. The book then dives into topics such as building the BSO cube, building the ASO cube, using EAS for development, creating Calculation Scripts and using MaxL to automate processes.

What you will learn from this book

• Design components of a Data Mart to use as data source, maintain meta-data, and support drill-through reporting.
• Setup a Data Source and Minischema in Essbase Studio so that metadata elements can be manipulated and hierarchies built.
• Create an Essbase Model, Cube Schema, drill-through report, and deploy both a Block Storage (BSO) and Aggregate Storage (ASO) application.
• Use Essbase Administration Services (EAS) to create applications, create and use substitution variables, and add complex outline formulas in both the Block Storage (BSO) and Aggregate Storage (ASO) models.
• Create dimension build rules, flat file load rules, and SQL load rules.
• Create complex calculations using the Calculation Script Editor, optimize a cube for calculations, and run allocation calculations off an Aggregate Storage database.
• Automate processes via MaxL scripts and integrate data between Essbase databases and to relational databases
• Design effective security and build dynamic reports

Approach
This cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you the advanced development techniques when building Essbase Applications and how to take these applications further.

This cookbook offers practical, task-based, and immediately usable recipes covering a wide range of advanced development techniques to build Essbase Applications and take them further. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in Essbase and wants to improve. The book is designed in such a way that you can either read it chapter by chapter or refer to recipes that you want in no particular order.

Who this book is for
If you are an experienced Essbase developer, Essbase Database Designer or Database Administrator, then this book is for you. This book assumes that you have good knowledge of Oracle Essbase.

Book Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849683263
• ISBN-13: 978-1849683265

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Book Description

Oracle Service Bus 11g is a scalable SOA integration platform that delivers an efficient, standards-based infrastructure for high-volume, mission critical SOA environments. It is designed to connect, mediate, and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications, packaged solutions and multiple Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) instances across an enterprise-wide service network. Oracle Service Bus is a core component in the Oracle SOA Suite as a backbone for SOA messaging.

This practical cookbook shows you how to develop service and message-oriented (integration) solutions on the Oracle Service Bus 11g.

Packed with over 80 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to create a basic OSB service and work efficiently and effectively with OSB. The book then dives into topics such as messaging with JMS transport, using EJB and JEJB transport, HTTP transport and Poller transports, communicating with the database, communicating with SOA Suite and Reliable Message Processing amongst others. The last two chapters discuss how to achieve message and transport-level security on the OSB.

What you will learn from this book

• Create a simple service on the OSB
• Work efficiently with the Eclipse OEPE
• Send and consume messages through the JMS transport, covering both topics and queues
• Learn how to use the HTTP transport to work in a RESTFul way, both from the consumer and provider side
• Use the Email transport to send and receive emails and process an attachment
• Use the JCA adapter framework with OSB in order to support communication with a database
• Use the SB transport to communicate with the SOA Suite
• Implement reliable communication with the OSB
• Includes tips and tricks for implementing the message processing in the message flow of a proxy service
• Learn how to secure OSB services through OWSM.

Approach
This cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how to develop service and message-oriented (integration) solutions on the Oracle Service Bus. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, the explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in OSB and wants to improve. Most of the recipes are designed in such a way that each recipe is presented as a separate, standalone entity and reading of prior recipes is not required. The finished solution of each recipe is also made available electronically.

Who this book is for
If you are an intermediate SOA developer who is using Oracle Service Bus to develop service and message-orientated solutions on the Oracle Service Bus, then this book is for you. This book assumes that you have a working knowledge of fundamental SOA concepts and Oracle Service Bus.

Book Details

• Paperback: 522 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849684448
• ISBN-13: 978-1849684446

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Book Description

Best practices for Postfix–the popular alternative to Sendmail.

Developed with security and speed in mind, Postfix has become a popular alternative to Sendmail and comes preinstalled in many Linux distributions as the default mailer. The Book of Postfix is a complete guide to Postfix whether used at home, as a mailrelay or virus-scanning gateway, or as a company mailserver. Practical examples show how to deal with daily challenges like protecting mail users from spam and viruses, managing multiple domains, and offering roaming access.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Preparing Your Host and Environment
Chapter 2. Mailserver for a Single Domain
Chapter 3. Dial-up Solution
Chapter 4. Understanding Restrictions
Chapter 5. Restrictions
Chapter 6. Understanding Checks
Chapter 7. Checks
Chapter 8. Understanding Filters
Chapter 9. Filters
Chapter 10. Mailrelay
Chapter 11. A Smart Mailrelay
Chapter 12. Filters
Chapter 13. Mailserver for Many Domains
Chapter 14. Company Mailserver
Chapter 15. Scanning for Viruses
Chapter 16. Authentication of Mobile Users
Chapter 17. Understanding Transport Layer Security
Chapter 18. Transport Layer Security
Chapter 19. Performance Tuning
Chapter 20. Installation
Chapter 21. Troubleshooting Postfix
Chapter 22. Postfix Anatomy
Chapter 23. Little Helpers
Chapter 24. RFCs
Chapter 25. Configuration Parameters
Glossary
Index

Book Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: No Starch Press (March 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593270011
• ISBN-13: 978-1593270018

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Book Description

A Day-by-Day Review Guide for the CompTIA A+ 220-701 and 220-702 Exams

31 Days Before Your CompTIA^® A+ Exams, Second Edition offers you a personable and practical way to understand the certification process, commit to taking the exam, and finish your preparation using a variety of study resources.

The 31-Day format breaks down key exam topics into 31 daily review sessions using short summaries, lists, tables, examples, and graphics. This edition includes a Study Resources section at the end of each day that provides you with a quick reference for locating more in-depth treatment of a day’s topics within relevant textbook resources.

Use this day-by-day guide to organize, prepare, and review all the CompTIA A+ objectives for the CompTIA A+ Essentials exam (220-701) and the CompTIA A+ Practical Application exam (220-702).

• The features of the book empower you to fit exam preparation into an otherwise busy schedule:
• Tear-out visual calendar summarizes each day’s study topics
• Checklist highlights important tasks and deadlines leading up to your exam
• Description of the CompTIA A+ exams and sign-up process
• Strategies from the author help you to be mentally, organizationally, and physically prepared for exam day
• Conversational tone makes your study time more enjoyable

Who Should Read This Book?
This book is for anyone preparing for the CompTIA A+ exams working with learning resources published by either Cisco Press, Que, Addison-Wesley, Cengage, or McGraw-Hill listed on page xxvii of this book.

Book Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press; 2nd Edition (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587132605
• ISBN-13: 978-1587132605

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Book Description

Trust the best selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.

CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of proven series elements and techniques. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.

• Master Cisco CCNA Voice 640-461 exam topics
• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
• Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
• Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM

CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide focuses specifically on the objectives for the CCNA Voice ICOMM exam. Senior voice consultants and trainers Jeremy Cioara and Michael Valentine share preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing your understanding and retention of exam topics.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test engine that enables you to focus on individual topic areas or take a complete, timed exam. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.

Well-regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, comprehensive design scenarios, and challenging review questions and exercises, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNA Voice exam, including:

• Voice and data convergence
• IP phone connections to the LAN infrastructure
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express
• CUCM Express IP phone configuration and voice productivity features
• Gateways and trunks
• Cisco Unity Express
• Smart Business Communications System
• UC500 series for voice

CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide is part of a recommended learning path from Cisco that includes simulation and hands-on training from authorized Cisco Learning Partners and self-study products from Cisco Press. To find out more about instructor-led training, e-learning, and hands-on instruction offered by authorized Cisco Learning Partners worldwide, please visit www.cisco.com/go/authorizedtraining.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587204177
• ISBN-13: 978-1587204173

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Book Description

Providing a comprehensive overview of the modelling, analysis and simulation of mobile radio channels, this book gives a detailed understanding of fundamental issues and examines state-of-the-art techniques in mobile radio channel modelling. It analyses several mobile fading channels, including terrestrial and satellite flat-fading channels, various types of wideband channels and advanced MIMO channels, providing a fundamental understanding of the issues currently being investigated in the field.

Important classes of narrowband, wideband, and space-time wireless channels are explored in detail with descriptions of efficient simulation methods for mobile radio channels being central. Strong emphasis is placed on the detailed origin of the presented channel models and a high degree of mathematical unity is conveyed. Using the described channel models, the reader can evaluate the performance of wireless communication systems under propagation conditions which are typical for multipath channels in various environments.

• Introduces the fundamentals of stochastic and deterministic channel models
• Explores the modelling and simulation of both wideband and narrowband mobile radio channels as well as several classes of MIMO channels
• Describes general concepts including geometrical, reference and simulation models
• Discusses several methods for the modelling of given Doppler, delay, and angular profiles
• Elaborates on methods for the design, analysis, and realisation of efficient channel simulators
• Examines techniques for the development of fast channel simulators
• Provides links for downloading MATLAB^®, programs enabling the simulation and analysis of the mobile fading channels models presented, on the companion website (www.wiley.com/go/paetzold)

Book Details

• Hardcover: 616 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2nd Edition (January 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470517476
• ISBN-13: 978-0470517475

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Book Description

A self-contained guide to coordinated multi-point (CoMP), this comprehensive book covers everything from theoretical basics to practical implementation. Addressing a wide range of topics, it highlights the potential gains of CoMP, the fundamental degrees of freedom involved and the key challenges of using CoMP in practice. The editors and contributors bring unique real-world experience from running the world’s first and largest test beds for LTE-Advanced, and recent field trial results from these tests are presented. With detailed insight into the realistic potential of CoMP as a key technology for LTE-Advanced and beyond, this is a must-read resource for professionals and students who want the big picture on CoMP or require in-depth knowledge of how to build cellular communication systems for the future.

Review
“Interference is the limiting factor in cellular communications and smart coordination of transmission can lead to significant improvements in quality of service. This book provides a strong outline and lays out some of the fundamental assumptions and theoretical models to treat the subject and supports the theory with result from system-level test benches and field measurements. I recommend this book to everyone interested in the topic.”
–Siavash M. Alamouti, Vodafone Group R&D Director

“Coordinated Multi-Point in Mobile Communications is a must read for system engineers, students, and wireless operations in the important emerging area of CoMP. It is a comprehensive effort that balances the underlying theory with the practical guidelines in all aspects of the technology from theory to field test.”
–Gee Rittenhouse, Head of Research, Bell Labs

Book Details

• Hardcover: 508 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 110700411X
• ISBN-13: 978-1107004115

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Book Description

Sametime 8.5.2 delivers a state-of-the-art enterprise-ready instant messaging and meeting service. This Administrator’s Guide navigates through the range of Sametime server components and features, providing you with the essential information required to install, administer and troubleshoot your Sametime 8.5.2 environment.The IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide cuts through the complexity of architecting, installing, and administering all the moving parts of the latest version of Sametime. With this book, you will be able to make the necessary decisions when it comes to choosing which server components you need and how to install them to get the most performance and maintainability from the software. Starting with an overview of Sametime 8.5.2, you will then dive into each server component. You learn what each one does, why it might be needed in your environment, and what you need to have in place to run it. By the end, you’ll have Sametime running and configured properly for your particular situation.With flexibility comes complexity– but not with this guide. You’ll learn how different architectures are possible and how to prepare properly for the installation of Sametime. You’ll learn how to install the servers in the right order so that you can maintain and expand your environment in the future. You’ll also find out how best to monitor your Sametime environment for issues, as well as how to effectively troubleshoot those problems so that you can quickly get Sametime running again.The IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide is the perfect one-stop resource for learning important installation and configuration details quickly and easily.

What you will learn from this book:

• Explore the server components that make up the Sametime 8.5.2 offering.
• Discover the requirements for each server, along with the features each provides – alone and integrated with other servers.
• Understand how to install each Sametime server and how to make installation choices that will support your infrastructure into the future.
• Explore how the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) architecture is used to run Sametime servers and how WAS impacts your system design.
• Design your Sametime environment to meet your current requirements and learn how you can build to allow for future growth.
• Discover how to use your corporate directory for authentication for Sametime.
• Attain the necessary skills for integrating business cards into your Sametime environment.
• Explore the new options for connecting remotely to Sametime with mobile devices.
• Discover the optional features: Sametime Telephony, Sametime Advanced and Sametime Gateway and how they can extend your environment.
• Master the best practices for administering and troubleshooting your Sametime environment.

Approach
The IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Administration Guide uses a practical, no-nonsense approach to give you the essential information you need. Using realistic scenarios, you learn how to configure and maintain your environment to meet your needs and take advantage of the flexibility offered in Sametime 8.5.2.

Who this book is written for
If you are responsible for installing and administering Sametime 8.5.2, then this book is for you. If you’re completely new to Sametime administration, this book will serve as your roadmap. If you’re making the jump from a prior version of Sametime, then you’ll see how Sametime 8.5.2 differs and how you work with the new configuration. Even if you already have Sametime 8.5.2 up and running, this guide will answer those questions you may still have of why and how the various server components work.

Book Details

• Paperback: 484 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (November 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849683042
• ISBN-13: 978-1849683043

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Book Description

Cfengine is a compact automation framework primarily used to provide automated configuration and maintenance of laptops, desktops, servers, and mainframes. It is not a very complex framework, but certainly is extensive. There is too much to learn and it is hard to convey in a simple way what the software can do. That is where this book steps in and saves your day.

Cfengine 3 Beginner’s Guide is the first and only book dedicated to Cfengine. It dives deep into using the framework’s ‘promise’ language to solve complex data center problems. Find all the details you’ll need about using the advanced functions and variables, with easy-to-understand examples. The book also covers complex work flows that showcase the framework’s possibilities.

This book starts off with step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the Cfengine server and clients, and moves on to configuring systems using Cfengine scripts. The author then walks you through the policy decision flow, conducting system and security audits.

This is followed by detailed discussions, through various examples, on how you can use Cfengine to configure systems, users, networks, databases, web servers et al. Adding to this, the book also provides a list of best practices, Cfengine policy decision flow, and how you may use the Cfengine Orion Cloud pack. By the end of the book you should be able to write policies for automating your complex data centre tasks.

Automate your Builds, Deployments, Management, and Audits with one efficient, dependable and versatile Cfengine framework.

What you will learn from this book:

• Install and configure the Cfengine environment including the server and clients. Understand the Cfengine policy decision flow.
• Build complete systems including laptops, desktops, servers, mainframes, etc. with minimal human intervention across multiple nodes.
• Conduct system audits and detect anomalies in the desired state of a system.
• Schedule various tasks from a centralized policy server and make changes to multiple systems’ state by making those changes on a single centralized policy server.
• Syntax and usage of various controls; Cfengine provides relevant and easy to understand examples.
• Monitor services and system states from a centralized policy server.
• Write complex work flows to solve complex data centre issues.
• Use advanced functions and variables inbuilt in Cfengine.
• Implement best practices for effective change management and infrastructure management.
• Create and manage a knowledge base with an inbuilt knowledge management tool.

Approach
Part of Packt’s Beginner’s Guide series, this book guides you through setting up Cfengine to maximizing its potential. This book focuses on getting you through all the major learning points in a smooth, logical order. You’ll also learn how to avoid some common pitfalls.

Who this book is written for
If you are a System Administrator or Configuration manager with a growing infrastructure and if you are looking for a dependable tool to manage your infrastructure, then this book is for you. If your infrastructure is already big with hundreds and thousands of nodes and you are looking for a secure, versatile and stable configuration management tool, you will still find this book handy. You don’t need any prior experience of Cfengine to follow this book.

Book Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849514984
• ISBN-13: 978-1849514989

Book Description

Patterns and practices make or break any middleware or integration solution and are especially important with BizTalk Server 2010. Learning the best patterns to use in the appropriate context greatly increases the chances of success for any solution.

Microsoft Biztalk server 2010 patterns will provide a thorough introduction to BizTalk Server 2010 as a platform and guide the reader through real world lessons and examples building an advanced unified solution that can be used as a reference architecture.

This book will guide you beyond the basics of BizTalk Server 2010 development and give you the relevant background, theory, and techniques necessary to create successful solutions. You will learn how the BizTalk Server 2010 platform works internally and how to plan for the necessary infrastructure for an installation. You will learn how to build messaging-based solutions including content-based routing that are easy to manage and change. You will learn how to solve common integration and middleware challenges by leveraging the strengths of BizTalk Server 2010.

This book addresses using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 and associated tools to create middleware and integration solutions with established patterns and practices that increase the effectiveness and impact of your solutions.

What you will learn from this book:

• How BizTalk Server 2010 works and appropriate topologies for different scenarios
• Structure and unit test BizTalk Server 2010 solutions
• Build BizTalk Server 2010 solutions that are easy to modify and expand
• Create compelling Business Activity Monitoring
• Deploy BizTalk Server 2010 solutions
• Consume and expose WCF Services with BizTalk Server 2010
• Use the Business Rules Engine to perform complex business processing decisions
• Leverage Parties to dynamically route messages without requiring code changes
• Implement convoy patterns

Approach
This book is broken into two distinct parts. The first is a general introduction to BizTalk Server 2010 as well as the patterns commonly used in solutions built on the platform. It also includes explanations and motivations for these core patterns and practices.

The second part is a hands-on real world example presented in a step-by-step manner that takes the reader through a multiphase solution and builds this simple project into a robust and complex middleware integration solution.

Who this book is written for
This book is targeted at the professional developer or architect tasked with creating solutions that leverage BizTalk Server 2010. It assumes experience with Visual Studio and at least a minimal exposure to any version of BizTalk Server from 2004 to the present. Development managers with a technical background will also find this book useful in guiding their implementation teams. Cursory knowledge of XML, although useful, is not required; the text does include an XML primer in the appendix.

Advanced BizTalk developers will learn many tips and techniques to improve the solutions they develop on the BizTalk 2010 platform.

Book Details

• Paperback: 396 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184968460X
• ISBN-13: 978-1849684606

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Book Description

The DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. Following O’Reilly’s popular problem-and-solution cookbook format, this title is an indispensable companion to DNS & BIND, 4th Edition, the definitive guide to the critical task of name server administration. The cookbook contains dozens of code recipes showing solutions to everyday problems, ranging from simple questions, like, “How do I get BIND?” to more advanced topics like providing name service for IPv6 addresses. It’s full of BIND configuration files that you can adapt to your sites requirements.

With the wide range of recipes in this book, you’ll be able to

• Check whether a name is registered
• Register your domain name and name servers
• Create zone files for your domains
• Protect your name server from abuse
• Set up back-up mail servers and virtual email addresses
• Delegate subdomains and check delegation
• Use incremental transfer
• Secure zone transfers
• Restrict which queries a server will answer
• Upgrade to BIND 9 from earlier version
• Perform logging and troubleshooting
• Use IPv6

and much more.

These recipes encompass all the day-to-day tasks you’re faced with when managing a name server, and many other tasks you’ll face as your site grows. Written by Cricket Liu, a noted authority on DNS, and the author of the bestselling DNS & BIND and DNS on Windows 2000, the DNS & BIND Cookbook belongs in every system or network administrator’s library.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Zone Data
Chapter 3 BIND Name Server Configuration
Chapter 4 Electronic Mail
Chapter 5 BIND Name Server Operations
Chapter 6 Delegation and Registration
Chapter 7 Security
Chapter 8 Interoperability and Upgrading
Chapter 9 Resolvers and Programming
Chapter 10 Logging and Troubleshooting
Chapter 11 IPv6

Book Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596004109
• ISBN-13: 978-0596004101

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Book Description

A revolution is coming to IT operations. Configuration management tools can build servers in seconds, and automate your entire network. Tools like Puppet are essential to take full advantage of the power of cloud computing, and build reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance systems.

The book takes you beyond the basics to explore the full power of Puppet, showing you in detail how to tackle a variety of real-world problems and applications. At every step it shows you exactly what commands you need to type, and includes full code samples for every recipe.

The book takes the reader from a basic knowledge of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet’s latest and most advanced features, community best practices, writing great manifests, scaling and performance, and how to extend Puppet by adding your own providers and resources.

The book includes real examples from production systems and techniques that are in use in some of the world’s largest Puppet installations, including a distributed Puppet architecture and a high-performance Puppetmaster solution using Apache and Passenger.

Explore the power of Puppet with this practical guide to the world’s most popular configuration management system

What you will learn from this book:

• Make Puppet reliable, performant, and scalable
• Produce eye-catching reports and information for management
• Understand common error messages and troubleshooting common problems
• Manage large networks with tools like Foreman and MCollective
• Use classes and inheritance to write powerful Puppet code
• Deploy configuration files and templates for lightning-fast installations
• Use virtual machines to build test and staging environments, and production systems on cloud platforms such as EC2
• Automate every aspect of your systems including provisioning, deployment and change management

Approach
This book is written in a Cookbook style showing you how to set up and expand your Puppet infrastructure. It progresses through detailed information on the language and features, external tools, reporting, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and concludes with many specific recipes for managing popular applications.

Who this book is written for
The book assumes that the reader already has a working Puppet installation and perhaps has written some basic manifests or adapted some published modules. It also requires some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, file system, and text editing. No programming experience is required.

Book Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849515387
• ISBN-13: 978-1849515382

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Book Description

As an industry-leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application, Salesforce CRM helps the enterprise to improve client relations. It greatly enhances sales performance and provides your business with a robust CRM system. In order to achieve optimum performance from the Salesforce CRM system, there are a lot of things for you as the Salesforce Administrator to tackle. This is the only book which focuses on the administrative aspect of Salesforce CRM.

Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook will give you all the information you need to administer this powerful CRM application. It is the definitive guide to implementing Salesforce CRM. Whether you are looking to enhance the core features or you have already started customizing your Salesforce CRM system and are looking for guidance on advanced features, this book will show you how to get the maximum benefit from this exciting product.

This book provides a practical, step-by-step experience. You will start with the initial user, move on to security setup, and then progress to higher level tasks such as configuration, data management, and data analytics. You will also be presented with ways to improve the setup and avoid some common pitfalls using tips and tricks gained from real-world experiences. And finally you will be presented with ways in which the core platform can be further extended and enhanced to provide the maximum return on investment for your organization.

This book is focused on the needs of the enterprise, providing a solution-driven approach for both business and IT specialists to get the most from this powerful and popular CRM application. It will enhance your understanding of the features and functionality of the CRM application and get you completely ready to administer Salesforce CRM.

What you will learn from this book:

• Apply real-world knowledge to configure, maintain, extend, and maximize your company’s use of Salesforce CRM
• Set up organization-wide settings that affect the look and feel of the system
• Customize your Salesforce CRM application, including page layouts, fields, and tabs
• Create and manage users
• Configure and tailor the system using Record types and Field-level security
• Automate business activities using Workflows
• Generate Meaningful Data and Workflow Reports that deliver results
• Explore Salesforce CRM functions such as Sales Automation, Campaign builder, lead queue and lead assignment, Cloud scheduler , and so on
• Extend salesforce.com via AppExchange, Visualforce pages, components, Apex controllers, and triggers
• Packed with tips and tricks for enhancing end-user productivity and expanding the Salesforce CRM implementation

Approach
A practical guide through which you will discover how to set up and configure the application. Along the way, you will also be presented with solutions and real-life examples on how to further improve and maintain its functionality with clear step-by-step instructions. Being highly organized and compact, this book contains detailed instructions with screenshots, diagrams, and tips that clearly describe how you can administer and configure complex Salesforce CRM functionality with absolute ease.

Who this book is written for
This book is for administrators who want to develop and strengthen their Salesforce CRM skills in the areas of configuration and system management. Whether you are a novice or a more experienced admin, this book aims to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the Salesforce CRM platform. By the end of the book, you will be ready to configure and administer a Salesforce CRM system in a real-world environment which fully supports your business needs.

Book Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849683069
• ISBN-13: 978-1849683067

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Book Description

Windows security concepts and technologies for IT beginners

IT security can be a complex topic, especially for those new to the field of IT. This full-color book, with a focus on the Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) program, offers a clear and easy-to-understand approach to Windows security risks and attacks for newcomers to the world of IT. By paring down to just the essentials, beginners gain a solid foundation of security concepts upon which more advanced topics and technologies can be built.

This straightforward guide begins each chapter by laying out a list of topics to be discussed, followed by a concise discussion of the core networking skills you need to have to gain a strong handle on the subject matter. Chapters conclude with review questions and suggested labs so you can measure your level of understanding of the chapter’s content.

• Serves as an ideal resource for gaining a solid understanding of fundamental security concepts and skills
• Offers a straightforward and direct approach to security basics and covers anti-malware software products, firewalls, network topologies and devices, network ports, and more
• Reviews all the topics you need to know for taking the MTA 98-367 exam
• Provides an overview of security components, looks at securing access with permissions, addresses audit policies and network auditing, and examines protecting clients and servers

If you’re new to IT and interested in entering the IT workforce, then Microsoft Windows Security Essentials is essential reading.

From the Back Cover
Learn Windows Security Quickly and Easily

This full-color guide covers the basics of securing a Windows operating system and prepares you to take the Microsoft Technology Associate Exam 98-367, Security Fundamentals. You’ll learn essential security principles, then quickly get up to speed on malware, NTFS permissions, firewalls, encryption, and much more. This is the ideal book, whether you’re aspiring to be an IT professional, or just brushing up on the basics.

Learn these Windows security essentials—and more:

• Understanding how risk and threat impact security principles
• Recognizing malware in all its forms
• Defending against social engineering attacks
• Identifying the three aspects of user authentication
• Securing access using NTFS permissions
• Protecting clients, servers, and networks
• Understanding encryption, certificates, and PKIs
• Preparing for MTA Exam 98-367, Security Fundamentals

View full-color images of system security settings
Practical illustrations help reinforce learning objectives

This striking Essentials book maximizes skill acquisition and knowledge retention with:

• Chapter-opening learning objectives
• Full coverage of all exam topics
• Four-color screenshots and illustrations
• Essentials and Beyond—summaries and additional suggested exercises
• Chapter review questions

Book Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (June 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 111801684X
• ISBN-13: 978-1118016848

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Book Description

Mathematical Aspects of Network Routing Optimization provides a thorough introduction to the subject of algorithms for network routing and focuses on multicast and wireless ad hoc systems. The modern world is connected through large-scale, computational networked systems such as the Internet and because of the ever-advancing technology of networking, efficient algorithms have become increasingly necessary to solve some of the problems developing in this area.

This work focuses on computational issues arising from the process of optimizing network routes, such as the quality of resulting links and their reliability. Algorithms are key to understanding the protocols underlying multicast routing. The main objective in the text is to derive efficient algorithms, with or without the guarantee of approximation, that can be applied to address these problems. Notes have been provided for basic topics such as graph theory and linear programming to assist those who are not fully acquainted with the mathematical topics presented throughout the book.

This book is designed for graduate students, researchers, and professionals interested in understanding the algorithmic and mathematical ideas behind routing in computer networks and network algorithms.

Table of Contents

• Preface.
• 1. Unicast Routing Algorithms.
• 2. Multicast Routing.
• 3. Steiner Trees and Multicast.
• 4. Online Multicast Routing.
• 5. Distributed Algorithms for Multicast Routing.
• 6. Center-Based Trees and Multicast Packing.
• 7. Metaheuristics for Multicast Routing.
• 8. The Point-to-Point Connection Problem.
• 9. Streaming Cache Placement.
• 10. Algorithms for Cache Placement.
• 11. Distributed Routing on Ad Hoc Networks.
• 12. Power-Aware Routing in MANETs.
• Appendix.- References.
• Index.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 229 pages
• Publisher: Springer (August 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1461403103
• ISBN-13: 978-1461403104

Book Description

It’s official: with IPv4 network addresses close to depletion, moving to IPv6 is now business critical. This concise book helps you plan for IPv6 integration by providing a high-level overview of the technical—and nontechnical—steps involved. Many of the challenges for your enterprise are on the organizational level, and solutions differ from company to company.

IPv6 Essentials author Silvia Hagen, a protocol analysis and directory service expert who’s worked with IPv6 international groups and forums for 10 years, supplies answers to the issues most frequently discussed by the clients she consults. With this guide, IPv6 project leaders and planning team members learn how to develop a cohesive integration strategy for building the next-generation network.

• Make a business case by focusing on the opportunities IPv6 offers
• Create a high level design and conduct a network assessment
• Develop a plan for evaluating vendors and products, and building labs and testing
• Understand routing protocol choices, security designs, and DNS issues
• Discover how to create an IPv6 address plan and manage IPv6 addresses
• Learn the available integration and transition technologies, and the scenarios they cover

About the Author
In the networking industry since 1990, Silvia Hagen became a CNE (Certified Novell Engineer) and CNI (Certified Novell Instructor) in 1992. As a successful instructor, she has trained hundreds of system engineers. Today, Silvia is CEO of Sunny Connection AG in Switzerland and works as a senior consultant and analyst for many mid- and large-sized companies. Her expertise is in Directory Services and Protocol Analysis.

Book Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (September 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1449305393
• ISBN-13: 978-1449305390

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