Introduction There is a plethora of open source monitoring tools available in today. Some of these tools monitor a wide variety of metrics while some others have the capability to monitor a particular set of metrics really well....
Read MoreWe feel quite handicapped not being able to run commands on our remote Linux server, this is where SSH comes in handy. Applications like the c-panel, give you control but it’s not quite enough to do custom and ad-hoc...
Read MoreSound card is a hardware device which will give a machine the capability to play audio files and audio in video file for us. In this post we will see how to get sound card hardware and sound card driver details. We already...
Read MoreQ. How can I check if my server is running on a 64 bit processor and running 64 bit OS or 32 bit operating system? Before answering above question we have to understand below points. We can run a 32-bit Operating system on a 64...
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Recently we need to find RAM(aka Physical memory) used by a User.. I thought it’s bit easy...
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In this post I am going to teach How to use DIG and with examples. DIG is one of the most...
Read MoreLearn nmap with examples NMAP(Network Mapping) is one of the important network monitoring tool. Which checks for what ports are opened on a machine. Some important to note about NMAP NMAP abbreviation is network mapper NMAP is...
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How to log DNS server activity? Ans : Sometimes you require to log DNS server activity to a file...
Read MoreThere are so many tools to monitor network such as MRTG, now I am going to explain such tool which monitors bandwidth for a system, ie vnstat(view network statistics). Its very much easy to install and configure. This tool can...
Read MoreNETWORK 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...
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N.A.G.I.O.S NAGIOS(N.A.G.I.O.S. is a recursive acronym: "Nagios Ain't Gonna Insist On...
Read MoreMONITORING USERS User-management is always one of the basic tasks for Linux administrators, here we are going to see some basics user related “Monitoring Commands”. 1) “finger” is a command which will...
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My name is Surendra Kumar Anne. I hail from Vijayawada which is cultural capital of south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. I am a Linux evangelist who believes in Hard work, A down to earth person, Likes to share knowledge with others, Loves dogs, Likes photography. At present I work at Bank of America as Sr. Analyst Systems and Administration. You can contact me at surendra (@) linuxnix dot com.
