Viranch Mehta - Icinga Network Monitoring

Viranch Mehta is fresh out of college, with experience of one year at Directi Internet Solutions (www.directi.com) as a Developer in Operations. He has done his B.Tech. (ICT) from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (www.daiict.ac.in), Gandhinagar (Gujarat). He has been a student Developer for Google Summer of Code (www.google-melange.com) in 2011 and 2012 with the KDE (www.kde.org) project in college, and a mentor in 2013.

The author has been a Linux and system administration enthusiast since his college days. He has built a lot of Homebrew automation programs using bash/python scripting as daily tasks in college. He started developing extensively with the KDE project, working primarily with the Plasma subproject, and later with the KDE Games subproject. He has also worked on Qt (qt-project.org) applications and writes small-scale software using Qt.

Apart from the work/hobby projects in college, the author has spent a large amount of time as a professional, building and deploying tools for monitoring and alert management. Directi, being an Internet solutions (such as domain name registration, Windows/Linux hosting, contextual advertising, and so on) provider, has a large-scale server and network infrastructure. He has also briefly contributed to Icinga with a few bug fixes.

I would like to thank my fianc Chandni for being patient with me while I spent nights working on the book and being at work in the daytime. I would also like to thank my parents for motivating me to write this book and friends and colleagues for helping me with some ideas for the book. Finally, I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me an opportunity to work on the book and making it available to a large audience.

Toni de la Fuente (Blyx) is a Senior Solutions Engineer for Americas at Alfresco Software Inc. The highlight of his career is the more-than-14 years' experience he has in Systems Administration and Networking and Security. He also teaches LPI Linux certification, Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), and ITIL v3; recently, he was certified as an AWS Technical Professional and AWS Business Professional.

He was declared an Open Source enthusiast, having founded different open source projects in the last few years. He has participated in other open source-related projects, such as Madrid Wireless, Fedora Linux, or OpenSolaris Hispano, and been referenced in books on network security. He regularly takes lectures, courses, and conferences at different events in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. He has also contributed to the world of Open Source for more than 10 years with his blog http://blyx.com and through Twitter (@ToniBlyx).

Toni wants to thank Packt Publishing for their trust in him and to all the people who spend tons of hours working at night making Open Sourceyou all make this world a better place, keep going.

Naoya Hashimoto has been working on Linux system integration and system and operation maintenance, both on-premise and on a public cloud for years. He has also started developing a new service to manage, maintain, and monitor a system on public cloud along with his experience in working as an infrastructure engineer in Japan for the past few years. He has worked on books such as OSS DB Standard Text PostgreSQL (http://www.oss-db.jp/ossdbtext/text.shtml) and was also involved in the translation of some chapters from Japanese to English.

Thanks to Vineeta Darade and Amigya Khurana for giving me the opportunity to review Icinga Network Monitoring, because it is my first time reviewing technical books on IT and, of course, Icinga, too. I would never have had an experience like this without using and writing about Icinga. Lastly, I'd like to express my gratitude to Forschooner Inc, as they gave me the opportunity to publish a company blog about OSS system integration and maintenance, mainly in Japanese but also in English.

Michael Medin is a Senior Developer and Lead Architect of the NSClient++ agent. He is an avid Open Source and monitoring fan and has been involved in open source monitoring for over 10 years. In Michael's day-to-day job, when he is not complaining about the lack of monitoring, he works as an Architect with Oracle Fusion Middleware. His blog, on which he often writes about monitoring, can be found at http://blog.medin.name.

Michael would like to thank Xiqun for allowing him to spend countless hours working with NSClient++ and his daughters for always bringing a smile to his face.

Daniel Oetken , born near Hamburg, Germany in 1990, started using Linux in 2007. He spent 10 months in Vancouver, Canada and is now working as a Junior Server Administrator. He is working mostly with Debian web and database servers, and is responsible for the administration of a Splunk Enterprise Cluster.

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