Nagios is an Open Source network, hardware, and application monitoring program. It is designed to inform system administrators of problems on their networks before their clients, end-users or managers do. As a SysAdmin, security professional or forensic investigator, Nagios can be your best friend. This is the only enterprise-class book on Nagios, which can help you to monitor everything from your network bandwidth to the temperature and humidity in your server room. In this book, you?ll learn to develop your own custom software ?plug ins? and integrate Nagios with third party hardware. The book also contains a special case study detailing how to deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Nagios in an enterprise environment as well as how to integrate Nagios with other monitoring applications and dashboards including Snort, Wireshark, and Cacinda. The companion Web sites also contains dozens of custom WMI scripts and plug-ins.