Assuming basic UNIX administration knowledge, this text focuses on advanced system administration topics such as performance monitoring, presentation of data, system tuning, security and system hardening.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
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Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 187 mm
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978-0-07-222698-0 (9780072226980)
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Thomas Knox (Vernon Hills, IL) Senior Unix Administrator with CCH Incorporated. Over 15 years experience in Solaris, AIX, HP-UX server administration, design, monitoring, mapping, integration, and tuning for high profile companies like Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Enterprise Information Solutions, and TRUSTe. Thomas was a system admin for the Center for Computation Electromagnetics (Linux, SunOS, DigitalUNIX, SGI) and is a member of the ACM. Thomas is a frequent contributor to SysAdmin Magazine, holds advanced degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
Ch. 1: Introduction; Ch. 2: System Activity; Ch. 3: Data Presentation; Ch. 4: System Log Files; Ch. 5: System Hardening; Ch. 6: System Tuning for Specific Applications; Ch. 7: Network Troubleshooting; Ch. 8: Email Troubleshooting; Ch. 9: Remote Monitoring; Ch. 10: System Tuning; Ch. 11: Virtual Memory; Ch. 12: System Crash Analysis; The Web-Site will include custom scripts and tools written by the author including: System collection tool that collects sys information from multiple systems and displays traffic lights for each system so management can tell at a glance, the state of the infrastructure; Remote system monitoring tool to monitor systems and verify that they are healthy, responsive, alert and if they have any communication issues. System activity script to monitor various system activities (vmstat, iostat, load, etc.) and send alerts when parameters fall outside their boundaries. SAR Graphing script, which takes data, generated by SAR and turns it into easy to read graphs that can be archived for future reference and used when working on performance tuning and isolating system bottlenecks.
