The all-in-one practical guide to supporting Cisco networks using freeware tools.

"Sue Plumley has taken the full breadth of network administration and drilled down into the detail that's always left out of network operating system vendor manuals. . It's a work of art." -Tom Henderson, Principal Researcher, ExtremeLabs, Inc. Network Administration Survival Guide If you manage a network computing infrastructure, your life just got easier. Each of this book's twelve incisive sections functions like a mini-manual on a different aspect of the network administrator's job. Each features step-by-step guidelines, task lists, and instructive real world examples. Each is backed up by a quick reference appendix that's packed with valuable technical information. An indispensable guide to problem diagnosis and resolution, plus a ready reference for administrators who want to expand their skill set. Network Administration Survival Guide tells you exactly what you need to know about: * Managing applications * Configuring and managing network printers * Configuring and managing Internet clients * Establishing network policies * Expanding your network * Managing remote access * Outsourcing * Network maintenance * Managing intranets and extranets * Setting up and maintaining security Wiley Computer Publishing. Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

This "survival guide" provides detailed information on everything needed to make a system run smoothly, from the physical components of the environments to administration, optimizing, tuning, and maintaining each system.

Administrating A Network For A Large Number Of Users Is A Complex Undertaking. Although There Is Plenty Of Online Documentation To Help A Linux Adminstrator, It Is Scattered All Over The Internet And Many Times It Is Not In-Depth Enough. Linux System Administration Survival Guide Goes Beyond Basic Network Operating System Knowledge To Understanding The Whys And Hows Behind The Administration Process. The Book Takes You Through Job Responsibilities And Planning To Implementation And Performance Monitoring. You Get A Hands-On Guide To Setting Up And Administrating A Network As Well As A Reference Guide That For Troubleshooting Tips And Techniques. This Book Shows You How To Seamlessly Incorprorate Linux Into Your Current System. Provides Detailed Information On Everything You Need To Make A System Run Smoothly--From The Physical Components Of The Environment To Administration, Optimizing, Tuning, And Maintaining Each System Cd-Rom Contains Linux Power Tools Adminstration Software

"A critical guide through the tangled thicket of hype, assumptions, and facts about Quality of Service in IP Networks." - Scott Bradner, Senior Consultant at Harvard and Transport Area Director, IETF The next wave of Internet services will include voice and video as well as data. Supporting this will be the next generation of multiservice network platforms. This technology guide provides a comprehensive examination of the tools used to construct multiservice Internet networks, and provides up-to-the-minute solutions that deliver accurate services. Detailing every part of this important topic, this book covers the latest in standards work, Quality of Service architectures, detailed evaluation of performance-tuning tools, and design guidelines for achieving optimum performance from Internet networks. With this book, you'll gain an unprecedented look at the key issues that arise when engineering Internet networks to deliver defined levels of performance and learn how to fully utilize the wide array of service performance tools that are available in current Internet networks. Networking Council Books put technology in perspective or decision-makers who need an implementation strategy, a vendor and outsourcing strategy, and a product and design strategy. Series advisors are three of the most influential leaders of the networking community: Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compboo ks/ Visit the Networking Council Web site at www.wiley.com/ networkingcouncil

Written for users who are familiar with computers, but unfamiliar with choosing, installing, configuring, and administering a Web server. Coverage includes background information on the World Wide Web; choosing an Internet Service Provider; downloading, compiling, and running a Web server; providing Web presence for businesses; securing a Web site; creating CGI scripts; integrating a Web site with databases; setting up firewalls and proxy servers; analyzing Web site statistics; troubleshooting Web sites; and preventing server break- ins. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

You probably suspect, on some level, that computers might be hazardous to your health. You might vaguely remember a study that you read years ago about miscarriages being more frequent for data entry operators. Or you might have run into a co-worker wearing splints and talking ominously about Workers' Comp insurance. Or you might notice that when you use a computer too long, you get stiff and your eyes get dry.But who wants to worry about such things? Surely, the people wearing splints must be malingerers who don't want to work? Surely, the people who design keyboards and terminals must be working to change their products if they are unsafe? Surely, so long as you're a good worker and keep your mind on your job, nothing bad will happen to you?The bad news is: You can be hurt by working at a computer. The good news is that many of the same factors that pose a risk to you are within your own control. You can take action on your own to promote your own health -- whether or not your terminal manufacturer, keyboard designer, medical provider, safety trainer, and boss are working diligently to protect you.The Computer User's Survival Guide looks squarely at all the factors that affect your health on the job, including positioning, equipment, work habits, lighting, stress, radiation, and general health.Through this guide you will learn: a continuum of neutral postures that you can at utilize at different work tasks how radiation drops off with distance and what electrical equipment is responsible for most exposure how modern office lighting is better suited to working on paper than on a screen, and what you can do to prevent glare simple breathing techniques and stretches to keep your body well oxygenated and relaxed, even when you sit all day how reading from a screen puts unique strains on your eyes and what kind of vision breaks will keep you most productive and rested what's going on "under the skin" when your hands and arms spend much of the day mousing and typing, and how you can apply that knowledge to prevent overuse injuries The Computer User's Survival Guide is not a book of gloom and doom. It is a guide to protecting yourself against health risks from your computer, while boosting your effectiveness and your enjoyment of work.

If you haven't worked with T1 before, you could be in for an unpleasant surprise. If you have, you'll already know that T1, the current network standard for business and professional Internet access, is neither efficient, easy to use, nor particularly well-suited to data transmission. T1: A Survival Guide, a practical, applied reference on T1 data transport, is a life raft for navigating the shoals of a 40-year-old technology originally designed for AT&T's voice network.Throughout T1's long life, network administrators have mainly learned it by apprenticeship, stumbling on troubleshooting tidbits and filing them away until they were needed again. This book brings together in one reference the information you need to set up, test, and troubleshoot T1.T1: A Survival Guide covers the following broad topics: What components are needed to build a T1 line, and how those components interact to transmit data effectively How to use standardized link layer protocols to adapt the T1 physical layer to work with data networks How to troubleshoot problems and work with the telephone company, equipment manufacturers, and Internet service providers In spite of its limitations, T1 is a proven, reliable technology that currently meets the need for medium-speed, high reliability Internet access by institutions of many sizes, and it's likely to be around for a while. T1: A Survival Guide will take the guesswork out of using T1 as a data transport.

This text is for network administrators who need to monitor and administer their networks from remote locations. It explains the concepts behind remote access administration and the hardware and software configurations needed to add remote access capabilities to an existing network.