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I mentioned that I was going to take this opportunity to explote my bookshelf a little bit since my *play* laptop’s screen bit it again. I figure I’ll call this the “What’s on your bookshelf” series. I’ll try and give some general reviews about what’s on my personal bookshelf and why and I’ll try and keep things relatively short because AI have quite a few books to go through and, well, I don’t want to bore either one of us 🙂

Building a monitoring infrastructure with Nagios

The first book that gets a mention is Building a monitoring infrastructure with Nagios. This is one of the books that I have that is really quite well worn. I do some Nagios administration at work and more recently at home. This book has been invaluable to not only me but several of my colleagues at work too.

Configuring Nagios is certainly not for the faint at heart and I have used Chapter 4’s Configuring Nagios information a LOT. Not to mention the command line options on Appendix C and the review of best practices. It’s been quite handy to have some direction right at my fingertips with some of this, and it’s didn’t hurt to have something to throw as a stress reliever on occasion too 🙂

Really, get this book if you are going to delve into Nagios – you’ll be happy that you did.

Getting things done – The art of stress-free productivity

This *LOOKS* like a fantastic book. It was recommended to me by a plethora of people, obviously one of those power self-help kind of books that everyone on the planet has read but me. I actually borrowed this from my boss some months ago and, just to prove how much I really need to read it, I have not yet had the time to do so.

I need to get this onto my short list of things to do, but I am curious as to what others actually do think of it. If you have read it, make sure to drop a comment and let me know the parts in there I really need to pay attention to!