First, a selection of books and periodicals are presented. The books contain a wealth of information and are often a needed resource. The magazines present new developments in a timely manner.

Next, products and tools are presented. The products represent commercial offerings in this field. The tools are freely available with many available for download from the COAST Archive.

Mailing lists and newsgroups provide forums for both discussion and learning about the various tasks and compenents in system administration. Conferences produce an intense environment to see the latest in developments and products. For any question, it is always best to check the Frequently Asked Questions. A selection of World Wide Web sites which concern themselves with system administration are presented. Lastly, the credits are presented.

• Frisch, Essential System Adminstration, Second Edition, O'Reilly & Associates, 1995
• Henry and Graham, Solaris 2.X System Administrator's Guide, McGraw Hill, 1995
• Nemeth, Snyder, Seabass, and Hein, Unix System Administration Handbook, Second Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 1989
• Parker, Linux System Administrator's Survival Guide, Sam's Publishing, 1996
• Parkinson, Freeland, and McKay, Sunsoft Solaris 2.* for Managers and Administrators, Onward Press, 1995
• Peek, O'Reilly, and Loukides, Unix Power Tools, O'Reilly & Associates, 1993
• Reiss and Radin, Unix System Adminstration Guide, McGraw Hill, 1993
• Stewart, Interactive UNIX A Guide for System Administrators, Prentice Hall PTR, 1995
• Thomas and Farrow, Unix Administration Guide for System V, Prentic Hall PTR, 1989
• Winsor, Solaris Advanced System Administrator's Guide, Ziff Davis Press, 1993
• Vann, Essential SCO System Administration, Prentice Hall PTR, 1995

• Bapat, Object-Oriented Network models for Architecture, Operations, and Management, Prentice Hall PTR, 1994
• Bates, Wireless Networked Communications Concepts, Technology, and Implementation, Mc-Graw HIll, 1994
• Bird, Token Ring Network Design, Addison-Wesley, 1994
• Black, ATM:Foundation for Broadband Networks, Prentice Hall PTR, 1995
• Black, Data Networks Concepts, Theory, and Practice, Prentice Hall, 1989
• Black, Datalink Protocols, Prentice Hall PTR, 1993
• Black, Frame Relay Networks second edition, Mc-Graw Hill, 1996
• Black, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Prentice Hall PTR, 1996
• Black, Network Management Standards second edition, Mc-Graw Hill, 1995
• Bloomers, Practical Planning for Network Growth, Prentice Hall PTR, 1996
• Boisseau, Demange, Munier, An Introduction to ATM Technology, International Thomson Publishing, 1995
• Breyer, Riley, Switched and Fast Ethernet How it Works and How to Use it, Ziff-Davis Press, 1995
• Burgard, Phillips, DOS<-->Unix Networking and Internetworking, John Wiley & Sons, 1994
• Cohen, A Guide to Networking, Boyd & Fraser Publishing, 1995
• Conner, Anderson, Networking the Desktop Cabling, Configuration, and Communications, Academic Press Professional, 1995
• Corrigan, LAN Disaster Prevention and Recovery, Prentice Hall PTR, 1994
• Costa, Planning and Designing High Speed Networkds Using 100VG-AnyLAN, Prentice Hall PTR, 1995
• Feibel, The Network Press Encyclopedia of Networking second edition, Sybex, 1995
• Fritz, Remote LAN Access A Guide for Networkers and the Rest of Us, Prentice Hall PTR, 1996
• Geier, Wireless Networking Handbook, New Riders Publishing, 1996
• Halsall, Data Communications Computer Networks and Open Systems fourth edition, Addison-Wesley, 1996
• Händel, Huber, Schröder, ATM Networks Concepts, Protocols, Applications second edition, Addison-Wesley, 1995
• Hegerling, Läpple, Ethernet Building a Communications Infrastructure, Addison-Wesley, 1993
• Held, Lan Management with SNMP and RMON, Wiley Computer Publishing, 1996
• Helds, Understand Data Communications fourth edition, Sams Publishing, 1994
• Henry, De Libero, Strategic Networking from LAN and WAN to Information Superhighways, Internal Thomson Computer Press, 1996
• Hines, ATM The Key to High-speed Broadband Networking, M&T Books, 1996
• Hopkins, The ISDN Literacy Book, Addison-Wesley, 1995
• Hunter, Local Area Networks Making the Right Choices, Addison-Wesley, 1993
• Jain, FDDI Handbook High-speed Networking Using Fiber and Other Media, Addison-Wesley, 1994
• Levy, Hartwig, Networking Fundamentals from Installation to Application, MISipress, 1995
• Rose, The SIMPLE Book an Introduction to Networking Management, Prentice Hall PTR, 1996

• Arnold, Unix Security A Practical Tutorial, McGraw-Hill, 1993
• Barrett, Bandits on the Information Superhighway, O'Reilly & Associates, 1996
• Baker, Network Security How to Plan for it and Achieve it, McGraw-Hill, 1995
• Bryant, Unix Security for the Organization, Sams Publishing, 1994
• Cheswick, Bellovin, Firewalls and Internet Security, Addison-Wesley, 1994
• Cobb, The NCSA Guide to PC and Lan Security, McGraw-Hill, 1996
• Curry, Unix System Security, Addison-Wesley, 1992
• Endrijonas, Data Security, Prima Publishing, 1995
• Garfinkel, PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, O'Reilly & Associates, 1995
• Garfinkel, Spafford, Practical UNIX Security & Internet Security, O'Reilly & Associates, 1996
• Howard, Introduction to Internet Security, PRIMA, 1995
• Icove, Seger, VonStorch, Computer Crime: A Crimefighter's Handbook, O'Reilly & Associates, 1995
• Kabay, The NCSA Guide to Enterprise Security, McGraw-Hill, 1996
• Kaufman, Perlman, Speciner, Network Security PRIVATE Communication in a PUBLIC World, Prentice Hall PTR, 1995
• Russel, Gangeni, Computer Security Basics, O'Reilly & Associates, 1991
• Simonds, Network Security Data and Voice Communications, McGraw-Hill, 1996
• Stallings, Internet Security Handbook, IDG Books, 1995
• Vacca, Internet Security Secrets, IDG Books, 1996
• various authors, Internet Security Professional's Reference, New Riders Publishing, 1996

• Computing Systems (link removed)
• HP Chronicle
• Linux Journal
• RS/Magazine
• Sun ObServer
• SunExpert
• Sys Admin
• UNIX Review (link removed)
• UnixWorld Online (link removed)
• ;login

• Alexandria by Spectra Logic
• Backup Express by Syncsort, INC
• BRU by Enhanced Software Technologies
• LONE-TAR by Lone Star Software (link removed)
• SM-arch by Software Moguls, Inc (link removed)

• InSPEC by Elegant Communications, INC (link removed)
• RoboMon by Heroix Corporation
• SystemWatch by SCH Technologies

• FLEXadmin by - FLEXlm License Management
• LicenseServ and LicenseTrack by Wyatt River Software - License Management (link removed)
• Qmaster by Software Solutions Ltd - Enterprise Processing and Output
• Spatch by The Hyde Company - alphanumeric paging
• UName*It by Enterprise Systems Management - DNS and NIS management (link removed)

• ACMAINT --- An account creation and Maintenance system for distributed UNIX systems.
  
• anlpasswd --- Password program to prevent poor password choices.
  
• Authentication Server Daemon --- Implementation of RFC 931.
• checkXusers --- Checks for logins coming from insecure X servers.
  
• chklastlog --- Check lastlog for inconsistencies.
  
• chrootuid --- Run a network service from a chrooted environment.
  
• Dig --- Domain Information Groper gathers information from DNS.
  
• DNSwalk --- Checks DNS database for inconsistencies.
  
• Domain Obscenity Control --- DOC diagnoses misbehaving DNS domains.
  
• Icmpinfo --- Tool to look at ICMP messages received by the hosts.
  
• L5 --- L5 produces information on the files in a file system.
  
• lsof --- List Open Files displays open files for UNIX processes.
  
• Netcat --- Utility for reading and writing data across a network.
  
• Network Management Tools --- Package of several network tools.
  
• Network Operation Center On-Line (NOCOL) --- Network monitoring tool.
  
• NFSbug --- Tests hosts for NFS problems.
  
• nfswatch --- Monitors NFS client and server traffic.
  
• SPAR --- Show Process Accounting Records.
  
• swatch --- System Watcher.
  
• TCP Dump --- Monitors TCP traffic.
  
• Traceroute --- Traces IP packet routes.
  
• trimlog --- Trims systems log files.
  
• ttywatcher --- Monitor and control ttys on the system.
  
• Watcher --- A system monitor.
  
• X Connection Monitor --- Manage current X connections.
  

• DEC Alpha OSF Mailing list --- This list deals with issues pertaining to OSF on DEC Alpha based stations. Send email to majordomo@ORNL.GOV with the following in the body:
  subscribe alpha-osf-managers
  .
• HP-UX Sysadmin Mailing List --- This list deals with system administration issues for HP-UX. Send email to majordomo@cv.ruu.nl with following in the body:
  subscribe hpux-admin e-mail address
  
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• SCO Announce Mailing List --- This list deals with announcements about SCO Unix. Send email to scoann-request@xenitec.on.ca.
• Sun Flash Mailing List --- This list is press releases from SUN concerning their products. Send email to sunflash-request@sun.com.
• Sun Managers Mailing list --- This list deals with issues pertaining to SUN workstations. Send email to sun-managers-request@ra.mcs.anl.gov with the following in the body:
  add
  .
• Sun Spots Mailing List --- This list deals with issues pertaining to SUN workstations. Send email to SUN-SPOTS-REQUEST@RICE.EDU.
• Unix Security Flaws Mailing List --- This list deals with security problems pertaining to various Unix versions. Send email to security-request@cpd.com.