The Linux Juggernaut

NETWORK MONITORING/ INFO GATHERING TOOLS IN LINUX.
1.Why we have to monitor Network ?
Some times we have to monitor Network traffic in our LAN if there is any traffic issues such as “Broadcast Stroms”. Here I am going to explain some Linux tools which are used to monitor network traffic.

I used to struggle a lot initially to use these tools.

Network monitoring tools can be divided in to three types :

1. Traffic monitoring

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NAGIOS(N.A.G.I.O.S. is a recursive acronym: “Nagios Ain’t Gonna Insist On Sainthood^“, “Sainthood” being a reference to the original name of the software, which was changed in response to a legal challenge by owners of a similar trademark). –wikipedia.org
NAGIOS is a system and network monitoring application that watches host and services that we specify as well as alerting when finds any error.

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ISO IMAGE FILES

What are ISO image files?
An ISO image is an archive file (also known as a disk image) of an optical disc in a format defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO image files typically have a file extension of .iso. The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media according to wikipedia.org.

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RAID10 can be implemented by first implement RAID1(ie mirring) then implementing RAID0(stripe set on different disks) on it.

Fire fox 3.5 version is released with some good features such as private browsing(which is already implemented in IE and Chrome some long time back). Here are the features which is new to FF3.5

1. Private browsing
2. Tab tearing
   
3. HTML5 support
4. Forget this site
5. Geo-location

I see most of the features are brought from Chrome.. What you say people?
And here is the link to download Latest Firefox browser

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This post is for the beginners who want’s to start learning linux, which contains

• Introduction
• Shell Tips
• Help
• Re-directing operators
• Basic file system
• System monitoring
• Disk management
• User management
• Text Editors
• Mathematical tools
• Network Management
• Security
• Backup/Restore
• Scheduling

etc… So many basic consepts with good explination for new Linux users.

Get the book here.

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