Unix® System Management Primer Plus

Summary

After hours, days, or even weeks of installing, configuring, and testing your systems, constant monitoring can reassure you that the systems continue to work properly. In addition to existing systems, it's important to monitor any new systems you place into your infrastructure, and that monitoring should begin as soon as you deploy the new systems. Continually updating your monitoring system to reflect your current infrastructure allows you to be proactive about your monitoring, actively looking for problems rather than reacting to problems that have already occurred. Nothing is more embarrassing or career threatening than having someone else report a major outage on your own systems to you. There are many ways to monitor systems, services, ...