This is the published works section, things I've written for money are herein.

Books I've written

I wrote a book on Nagios for Addison Wesley/Prentice Hall Entitled “Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios”. I put a lot of work into it, and am pretty happy with the outcome. Also, it's 100% guaranteed to not give you syphilis, so you should buy a copy.

The cover looks like this:

You can pick up a copy at amazon.

I write a bi-monthly column about systems monitoring for Login Magazine called 'iVoyer'. Individual articles reside below (I'll get this up to date soon I promise)

YOU should write an NEB Module Revisited :: The ins and outs of writing your very own Nagios Event Broker Module, updated to Nagios 3.0

YOU should write an NEB Module! :: The ins and outs of writing your very own Nagios Event Broker Module using NagFS as a guide. The complete source code for Nagfs

Hold the Pixles :: Using round robin databases as databases instead of graph drawing tools

Admin, Root Thyself :: A primer on writing monitoring scripts using systemtap, the Linux equivalent of dtrace. Includes functional code for a file system integrity checker.

Comply :: A rant about the current state of security compliance thinly disguised as a howto.

Permission to Parse :: A primer on monitoring HTTP services with a focus on dealing with problematic security protocols.

Mystical Flows :: A Primer on netflow, using flowtools

Opaque Brews :: A rant about how hard it is to monitor the goings on inside Java VM's thinly disguised as a howto

A View from Someplace Nearby :: My first article for login magazine, introductions and expectations.

Papers published for scientific journals

In 2004 I co-authored a paper that won the best paper award at LISA. Usenix maintains an abstract page here and you can download the pdf here