A comprehensive guide to learning Cacti and using it to implement performance measurement and reporting within a Network Operations Center About This Book ? A complete Cacti book that focuses on the basics as well as the advanced concepts you need to know for implementing a Network Operations Center ? A step-by-step Beginner's Guide with detailed instructions on how to create and implement custom plugins ? Written by Thomas Urban – creator of the "Cereus" and "NMID" plugins for Cacti known as Phalek in the Cacti forum Who This Book Is For If you are a network operator and want to use Cacti for implementing performance measurement for trending, troubleshooting, and reporting purposes, then this book is for you. You only need to know the basics of network management and SNMP. What You Will Learn ? Setting up Cacti on Linux and Windows systems ? Extending the core functionality by using the plugin architecture ? Building your own custom plugins ? Creating your own custom data input method to retrieve data from your systems ? Using SNMP, SSH, and WMI to retrieve remote performance data ? Designing and create enterprise-class reports with the reporting plugins ? Implementing threshold-based alerting using the Thold plugin ? Automating common administrative tasks utilizing the command-line interface and the automate functionality ? Migrating Cacti to new servers ? Building a multi remote-poller environment In Detail Cacti is a performance measurement tool that provides easy methods and functions for gathering and graphing system data. You can use Cacti to develop a robust event management system that can alert on just about anything you would like it to. But to do that, you need to gain a solid understanding of the basics of Cacti, its plugin architecture, and automation concepts. Cacti Beginner's Guide will introduce you to the wide variety of features of Cacti and will guide you on how to use them for maximum effectiveness. Advanced topics such as the plugin architecture and Cacti automation using the command-line interface will help you build a professional performance measurement system. Designed as a beginner's guide, the book starts off with the basics of installing and using Cacti, and also covers the advanced topics that will show you how to customize and extend the core Cacti functionalities. The book offers essential tutorials for creating advanced graphs and using plugins to create enterprise-class reports to show your customers and colleagues. From data templates to input methods and plugin installation to creating your own customized plugins, this book provides you with a rich selection of step-by-step instructions to reach your goals. It covers all you need to know to implement professional performance measurement techniques with Cacti and ways to fully customize Cacti to fit your needs. You will also learn how to migrate Cacti to new servers. Lastly you will also be introduced to the latest feature of building a scalable remote poller environment. By the end of the book, you will be able to implement and extend Cacti to monitor, display, and report the performance of your network exactly the way you want. Style and approach Written for beginners to Cacti, this book contains step-by-step instructions and hands-on tutorials for network operators to learn how to implement and use the core Cacti functions.

Leverage the power of Type* 2.0 using real-world examples About This Book ? Begin with the fundamentals of TypeScript and learn how to write better JavaScript code ? Build three amazing applications throughout the book ? Leverage the power of tools such as Angular 2 and NativeScript to build for the web as well as for mobile Who This Book Is For Web developers who would like to learn how to use TypeScript to build amazing applications will benefit from this book. What You Will Learn ? Design your first project in Visual Studio ? Learn about the different data types in TypeScript ? Create web applications in an object-oriented fashion using TypeScript ? Build a Trello application using TypeScript's complex features. ? Explore the tools available in a web application ecosystem to write unit test cases ? Deploy web applications to cloud and assign resources to the application In Detail The TypeScript language, compiler, and open source development toolset brings JavaScript development up to the enterprise level. It allows you to use ES5, ES6, and ES7 JavaScript language features today, including classes, interfaces, generics, modules, and more. Its simple typing syntax enables building large, robust applications using object-oriented techniques and industry-standard design principles. This book aims at teaching you how to get up and running with TypeScript development in the most practical way possible. Taking you through two exciting projects built from scratch, you will learn the basics of TypeScript, before progressing to functions, generics, promises, and callbacks. Then, you’ll get to implement object-oriented programming as well as optimize your applications with effective memory management. You’ll also learn to test and secure your applications, before deploying them. Starting with a basic SPA built using Angular, you will progress on to building, maybe, a Chat application or a cool application. You’ll also learn how to use NativeScript to build a cool mobile application. Each of these applications with be explained in detail, allowing you to grasp the concepts fast. By the end of this book, you will have not only built two amazing projects but you will also have the skills necessary to take your development to the next level. Style and approach Example-based approach to get you quickly started with Type*

Implement your Business Intelligence solutions without any coding - by leveraging the power of the Alteryx platform About This Book ? Experience the power of codeless analytics using Alteryx, a leading Business Intelligence tool ? Uncover hidden trends and valuable insights from your data across different sources and make accurate predictions ? Includes real-world examples to put your understanding of the features in Alteryx to practical use Who This Book Is For This book is for aspiring data professionals who want to learn and implement self-service analytics from scratch, without any coding. Those who have some experience with Alteryx and want to gain more proficiency will also find this book to be useful. A basic understanding of the data science concepts is all you need to get started with this book. What You Will Learn ? Create efficient workflows with Alteryx to answer complex business questions ? Learn how to speed up the cleansing, data preparing, and shaping process ? Blend and join data into a single dataset for self-service analysis ? Write advanced expressions in Alteryx leading to an optimal workflow for efficient processing of huge data ? Develop high-quality, data-driven reports to improve consistency in reporting and analysis ? Explore the flexibility of macros by automating analytic processes ? Apply predictive analytics from spatial, demographic, and behavioral analysis and quickly publish, schedule ? Share your workflows and insights with relevant stakeholders In Detail Alteryx, as a leading data blending and advanced data analytics platform, has taken self-service data analytics to the next level. Companies worldwide often find themselves struggling to prepare and blend massive datasets that are time-consuming for analysts. Alteryx solves these problems with a repeatable workflow designed to quickly clean, prepare, blend, and join your data in a seamless manner. This book will set you on a self-service data analytics journey that will help you create efficient workflows using Alteryx, without any coding involved. It will empower you and your organization to take well-informed decisions with the help of deeper business insights from the data.Starting with the fundamentals of using Alteryx such as data preparation and blending, you will delve into the more advanced concepts such as performing predictive analytics. You will also learn how to use Alteryx’s features to share the insights gained with the relevant decision makers. To ensure consistency, we will be using data from the Healthcare domain throughout this book. The knowledge you gain from this book will guide you to solve real-life problems related to Business Intelligence confidently. Whether you are a novice with Alteryx or an experienced data analyst keen to explore Alteryx’s self-service analytics features, this book will be the perfect companion for you. Style and approach Comprehensive, step by step guide filled with real-world examples to step through the complex business questions using one of the leading data analytics platform.

Learn the art of configuring, deploying, managing and securing Windows 10 for your enterprise. About This Book ? Enhance your enterprise administration skills to manage Windows 10 Redstone 3 ? Get acquainted with configuring Azure Active Directory for enabling cloud-based services and Remote Server Admin Tools for managing Windows Server ? Provide enterprise-level security with ease using the built-in data loss prevention of Windows 10 Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator who has been given the responsibility of administering and managing Windows 10 Redstone 3, then this book is for you. If you have deployed and managed previous versions of Windows, it would be an added advantage. What You Will Learn ? Understand the remote access capabilities ? Use third-party tools to deploy Windows 10 ? Customize image and user Interface experience ? Implement assigned access rights ? Configure remote administration ? Manage Windows 10 security ? Work with Azure AD and Intune management In Detail Microsoft’s launch of Windows 10 is a step toward satisfying the enterprise administrator’s needs for management and user experience customization. This book provides the enterprise administrator with the knowledge needed to fully utilize the advanced feature set of Windows 10 Enterprise. This practical guide shows Windows 10 from an administrator's point of view. You'll focus on areas such as installation and configuration techniques based on your enterprise requirements, various deployment scenarios and management strategies, and setting up and managing admin and other user accounts. You’ll see how to configure Remote Server Administration Tools to remotely manage Windows Server and Azure Active Directory. Lastly, you will learn modern Mobile Device Management for effective BYOD and how to enable enhanced data protection, system hardening, and enterprise-level security with the new Windows 10 in order to prevent data breaches and impede attacks. By the end of this book, you will know the key technologies and capabilities in Windows 10 and will confidently be able to manage and deploy these features in your organization. Style and approach This step-by-step guide will show you how to configure, deploy, manage, and secure the all new Windows 10 Redstone 3 for your enterprise.

Over 80 recipes to effectively test your network and boost your career in security About This Book ? Learn how to scan networks to find vulnerable computers and servers ? Hack into devices to control them, steal their data, and make them yours ? Target wireless networks, databases, and web servers, and password cracking to make the most of Kali Linux Who This Book Is For If you are looking to expand your career into penetration testing, you will need a good understanding of Kali Linux and the variety of tools it includes. This book will work as a perfect guide for anyone who wants to have a practical approach in leveraging penetration testing mechanisms using Kali Linux What You Will Learn ? Acquire the key skills of ethical hacking to perform penetration testing ? Learn how to perform network reconnaissance ? Discover vulnerabilities in hosts ? Attack vulnerabilities to take control of workstations and servers ? Understand password cracking to bypass security ? Learn how to hack into wireless networks ? Attack web and database servers to exfiltrate data ? Obfuscate your command and control connections to avoid firewall and IPS detection In Detail Kali Linux is a Linux distribution designed for penetration testing and security auditing. It is the successor to BackTrack, the world’s most popular penetration testing distribution. Kali Linux is the most widely used platform and toolkit for penetration testing. Security is currently the hottest field in technology with a projected need for millions of security professionals. This book focuses on enhancing your knowledge in Kali Linux for security by expanding your skills with toolkits and frameworks that can increase your value as a security professional. Kali Linux Cookbook, Second Edition starts by helping you install Kali Linux on different options available. You will also be able to understand the lab architecture and install a Windows host for use in the lab. Next, you will understand the concept of vulnerability analysis and look at the different types of exploits. The book will introduce you to the concept and psychology of Social Engineering and password cracking. You will then be able to use these skills to expand the scope of any breaches you create. Finally, the book will guide you in exploiting specific technologies and gaining access to other systems in the environment. By the end of this book, you will have gained the core knowledge and concepts of the penetration testing process. Style and approach This book teaches you everything you need to know about Kali Linux from the perspective of a penetration tester. It is filled with powerful recipes and practical examples that will help you gain in-depth knowledge of Kali Linux.

Explore the necessary concepts of REST API development by building few real world services from scratch. About This Book ? Follow best practices and explore techniques such as clustering and caching to achieve a reactive, scalable web service ? Leverage the Buffalo Framework to quickly implement RESTful endpoints ? Learn to implement a client library for a RESTful web service using Go Who This Book Is For This book is intended for those who want to learn to build RESTful web services with a framework like Buffalo. To make best use of the code samples included in the book, you should have a basic knowledge of Go programming. What You Will Learn ? Create HTTP handler and introspect the Gorilla Mux router ? OAuth 2 implementation with Go ? Build RESTFul API with go-restful, Revel.Go and Buffalo Go ? Create REST API with MongoDB and Go ? Build a working client library and unit test for REST API ? Debug, test, and profile RESTful APIs with each of the frameworks ? Optimize and scale REST API using microservices In Detail REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services and in today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of Go, makes it a breeze for developers to work with it to build robust Web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages a framework like Buffalo Go to implement these services. The book starts with a brief introduction to REST API development and how it transformed the modern web. You will learn how to handle routing and authentication of web services along with working with middleware for internal service. The book explains how to use Go frameworks to build RESTful web services and work with MongoDB to create REST API. You will learn how to integrate Postgres SQL and JSON with a Go web service and build a client library in Go for consuming REST API. You will learn how to scale APIs using the microservice architecture and deploy the REST APIs using Nginx as a proxy server. Finally you will learn how to metricize a REST API using an API Gateway. By the end of the book you will be proficient in building RESTful APIs in Go. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step, hands-on guide to designing and building RESTful web services.

Perform cloud-based machine learning and deep learning using Amazon Web Services such as SageMaker, Lex, Comprehend, Translate, and Polly Key Features * Explore popular machine learning and deep learning services with their underlying algorithms * Discover readily available artificial intelligence(AI) APIs on AWS like Vision and Language Services * Design robust architectures to enable experimentation, extensibility, and maintainability of AI apps Book Description From data wrangling through to translating text, you can accomplish this and more with the artificial intelligence and machine learning services available on AWS. With this book, you’ll work through hands-on exercises and learn to use these services to solve real-world problems. You’ll even design, develop, monitor, and maintain machine and deep learning models on AWS. The book starts with an introduction to AI and its applications in different industries, along with an overview of AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning services. You’ll then get to grips with detecting and translating text with Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Translate. The book will assist you in performing speech-to-text with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Polly. Later, you’ll discover the use of Amazon Comprehend for extracting information from text, and Amazon Lex for building voice chatbots. You will also understand the key capabilities of Amazon SageMaker such as wrangling big data, discovering topics in text collections, and classifying images. Finally, you’ll cover sales forecasting with deep learning and autoregression, before exploring the importance of a feedback loop in machine learning. By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to implement AI in AWS through hands-on exercises that cover all aspects of the ML model life cycle. What you will learn * Gain useful insights into different machine and deep learning models * Build and deploy robust deep learning systems to production * Train machine and deep learning models with diverse infrastructure specifications * Scale AI apps without dealing with the complexity of managing the underlying infrastructure * Monitor and Manage AI experiments efficiently * Create AI apps using AWS pre-trained AI services Who this book is for This book is for data scientists, machine learning developers, deep learning researchers, and artificial intelligence enthusiasts who want to harness the power of AWS to implement powerful artificial intelligence solutions. A basic understanding of machine learning concepts is expected.

Scale gracefully and maintain outstanding performance with your AWS-based infrastructure using DevOps principles About This Book ? Implement DevOps principles to take full advantage of the AWS stack and services ? Take expert look at solving problems faced by real developers and operation teams and learn to overcome them ? Learn from expert insights of the author who has worked with Silicon Valley’s most high-profile companies Who This Book Is For This book is for developers, DevOps engineers and teams who want to build and use AWS for their software infrastructure. Basic computer science knowledge is required for this book. What You Will Learn ? Find out what it means to practice DevOps and what its principles are ? Build repeatable infrastructures using templates and configuration management ? Deploy multiple times a day by implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines ? Use the latest technologies, including containers and serverless computing, to scale your infrastructure ? Collect metrics and logs and implement an alerting strategy ? Make your system robust and secure In Detail The DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. AWS which has been on the forefront of the Cloud computing revolution has also been a key contributor of this DevOps movement creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement the DevOps principles. In this book, you’ll see how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS and how you can too. Written by a lead member of Mediums DevOps team, this book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline as necessary with the code as easily as you control your software. You will also build a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to keep your app up to date. You’ll find out how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users anywhere in the world, even when traffic spikes with the latest technologies, such as containers and serverless computing. You will also take a deep dive into monitoring and alerting to make sure your users have the best experience when using your service. Finally, you’ll get to grips with ensuring the security of your platform and data. Style and approach This is a practical, hands-on, comprehensive guide to AWS, helping readers understand AWS in a step by step manner.

Break through the hype and learn how to extract actionable intelligence from the flood of IoT data About This Book ? Make better business decisions and acquire greater control of your IoT infrastructure ? Learn techniques to solve unique problems associated with IoT and examine and analyze data from your IoT devices ? Uncover the business potential generated by data from IoT devices and bring down business costs Who This Book Is For This book targets developers, IoT professionals, and those in the field of data science who are trying to solve business problems through IoT devices and would like to analyze IoT data. IoT enthusiasts, managers, and entrepreneurs who would like to make the most of IoT will find this equally useful. A prior knowledge of IoT would be helpful but is not necessary. Some prior programming experience would be useful What You Will Learn ? Overcome the challenges IoT data brings to analytics ? Understand the variety of transmission protocols for IoT along with their strengths and weaknesses ? Learn how data flows from the IoT device to the final data set ? Develop techniques to wring value from IoT data ? Apply geospatial analytics to IoT data ? Use machine learning as a predictive method on IoT data ? Implement best strategies to get the most from IoT analytics ? Master the economics of IoT analytics in order to optimize business value In Detail We start with the perplexing task of extracting value from huge amounts of barely intelligible data. The data takes a convoluted route just to be on the servers for analysis, but insights can emerge through visualization and statistical modeling techniques. You will learn to extract value from IoT big data using multiple analytic techniques. Next we review how IoT devices generate data and how the information travels over networks. You’ll get to know strategies to collect and store the data to optimize the potential for analytics, and strategies to handle data quality concerns. Cloud resources are a great match for IoT analytics, so Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and PTC ThingWorx are reviewed in detail next. Geospatial analytics is then introduced as a way to leverage location information. Combining IoT data with environmental data is also discussed as a way to enhance predictive capability. We’ll also review the economics of IoT analytics and you’ll discover ways to optimize business value. By the end of the book, you’ll know how to handle scale for both data storage and analytics, how Apache Spark can be leveraged to handle scalability, and how R and Python can be used for analytic modeling. Style and approach This book follows a step-by-step, practical approach to combine the power of analytics and IoT and help you get results quickly

React Native's ability to build performant mobile applications with JavaScript has resulted in its popularity amongst developers. Developers now have the luxury to create incredible mobile experiences that look and feel native to their platforms with the comfort of a well-known language and the popular React.js library. This book will show you how to build your own native mobile applications for the iOS and Android platforms while leveraging the finesse and simplicity of JavaScript and React. Throughout the book you will build three projects, each of increasing complexity. You will also link up with the third-party Facebook SDK, convert an app to support the Redux architecture, and learn the process involved in making your apps available for sale on the iOS App Store and Google Play. At the end of this book, you will have learned and implemented a wide breadth of core APIs and components found in the React Native framework that are necessary in creating great mobile experiences. What you will learn ?How to create mobile-performant iOS and Android apps using JavaScript and React ?The potential of each API and component, putting them into practice throughout the course of three projects ?The process of integrating the Facebook SDK to build an app that connects to third-party data ?Every step taken to implement Redux, a popular state management library, in your mobile apps

Bring the power of functional programming to Swift to develop clean, smart, scalable and reliable applications. About This Book ?Written for the latest version of Swift, this is a comprehensive guide that introduces iOS, Web and macOS developers to the all-new world of functional programming that has so far been alien to them ?Get familiar with using functional programming alongside existing OOP techniques so you can get the best of both worlds and develop clean, robust, and scalable code ?Develop a case study on example backend API with Swift and Vapor Framework and an iOS application with Functional Programming, Protocol-Oriented Programming, Functional Reactive Programming, and Object-Oriented Programming techniques Who This Book Is For Meant for a reader who knows object-oriented programming, has some experience with Objective-C/Swift programming languages and wants to further enhance his skills with functional programming techniques with Swift 3.x. What You Will Learn ?Understand what functional programming is and why it matters ?Understand custom operators, function composition, currying, recursion, and memoization ?Explore algebraic data types, pattern matching, generics, associated type protocols, and type erasure ?Get acquainted with higher-kinded types and higher-order functions using practical examples ?Get familiar with functional and non-functional ways to deal with optionals ?Make use of functional data structures such as semigroup, monoid, binary search tree, linked list, stack, and lazy list ?Understand the importance of immutability, copy constructors, and lenses

Master the art of detecting and averting advanced network security attacks and techniques About This Book ?Deep dive into the advanced network security attacks and techniques by leveraging tools such as Kali Linux 2, MetaSploit, Nmap, and Wireshark ?Become an expert in cracking WiFi passwords, penetrating anti-virus networks, sniffing the network, and USB hacks ?This step-by-step guide shows you how to confidently and quickly detect vulnerabilities for your network before the hacker does Who This Book Is For This book is for network security professionals, cyber security professionals, and Pentesters who are well versed with fundamentals of network security and now want to master it. So whether you're a cyber security professional, hobbyist, business manager, or student aspiring to becoming an ethical hacker or just want to learn more about the cyber security aspect of the IT industry, then this book is definitely for you. What You Will Learn ?Use SET to clone webpages including the login page ?Understand the concept of Wi-Fi cracking and use PCAP file to obtain passwords ?Attack using a USB as payload injector ?Familiarize yourself with the process of trojan attacks ?Use Shodan to identify honeypots, rogue access points, vulnerable webcams, and other exploits found in the database ?Explore various tools for wireless penetration testing and auditing ?Create an evil twin to intercept network traffic ?Identify human patterns in networks attacks In Detail Computer networks are increasing at an exponential rate and the most

This book is for software developers who are new to Lucene and who want to explore the more advanced topics to build a search engine. Knowledge of Java is necessary to follow the code samples. You will learn core concepts, best practices, and also advanced features, in order to build an effective search application.

This practical guide is intended for those who want to learn how to build extremely scalable applications. This book is easy to read and is aimed at Java enterprise developers with a solid knowledge of Java. However, no previous coding experience with Infinispan is required.

If you are a security professional, pentester, or anyone interested in getting to grips with wireless penetration testing, this is the book for you. Some familiarity with Kali Linux and wireless concepts is beneficial.

If you are a JavaScript developer with a basic knowledge of WebRTC and software development, but want to explore how to use it in more depth, this book is for you.

If you are already using Neo4j in your application and want to learn more about data analysis or database graphs, this is the book for you. This book also caters for your needs if you are looking to migrate your existing application to Neo4j in the future. We assume that you are already familiar with any general purpose programming language and have some familiarity with Neo4j.

This book is intended for both beginners who want to get started with Prezi as well as experienced users who want to enhance their knowledge of Prezi. If you are a seasoned presenter, you can use this book to quickly transfer your presentation skills to Prezi. If you are new to presenting, the guidelines and tips in this book take you by the hand and guide you to complete mastery of Prezi.

This book is aimed at developers, designers, and architects who would like to build big data enterprise search solutions for their customers or organizations. No prior knowledge of Apache Hadoop and Apache Solr/Lucene technologies is required.

This book is a good companion to get you quickly acquainted with everything you need to increase your productivity with the ArcGIS Desktop. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with basic GIS concepts. If you have no previous experience with ArcGIS, this book will still be helpful for you because it will help you catch up to the acquainted users from a practical point of view.

If you are an intermediate or advanced developer deploying your Node.js applications, then this book is for you. If you have already built a Node application or module and want to take your knowledge to the next level, this book will help you find your way.