I recently received a copy of PACKT publishings new book titled Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring. You can grab yourself a copy of the same chapter here.
Facts

8 Chapters, 116 pages with an RRP of $34.99 US / £31.99 UK
The book is aimed at anyone who wants to manage a network using Cacti. No previous Cacti or [...]

In early September I was contacted by PACKT Publishing. They provided me with a review copy of their new book, Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring (ISBN 978-847194-28-2) by Michael Badger.
The books eleven chapters cover everything from basic installation to extending Zenoss:

Introduction
System Architecture
Installation and Set up
The Zenoss User Interface
Device Management
Status and Performance Monitors
Event Management
System Reports
Settings [...]

I’ve used various network monitoring tools over the last few years, in particular Cacti, System Center Essentials and now Zenoss.
Cacti is great for monitoring SNMP hosts and has some incredible graphing abilities. The problem I had with Cacti is simply that there’s no useful OS error monitoring. So, there became a requirement for either a [...]