Open Source Network Administration

This book is very helpful to learn the network monitoring basis. It is about GNU software tools.

Open Source Network Adminstration is a collection of open source tools for streamlining and improving virtually every facet of network administration. Every tool is described in detail, with easy instructions for retrieval, installation from source, configuration and real-world usage.

I am not a Network Administrator, and I took an interest in this book simply to learn the basic tools used to build and maintain an open source network. In my position there were a number of chapters that particularly stood out for meChapter 1: Introduction.