Install and Configure Cacti monitoring tool in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server

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New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Install and Configure Cacti monitoring tool in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All [...]

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Network Monitoring Appliance

Posted by suvi under Monitoring, Networking

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Network Monitoring Appliance
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pMy ambition was to implement a small (better tiny) appliance for
monitoring network health and network resources, short and longtime
trends, running under VMware Server or VMware ESX. So I had an eye upon
all components which [...]

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Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny

Posted by suvi under Debian, Monitoring

MultiTail
lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The
difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with
ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the
wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically
switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete
directory of [...]

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What’s Bogging Down Your Linux PC? Tracking Down Resource Hogs

Posted by suvi under Hardware, Linux, Monitoring

Hardware is getting amazingly fast. But sometimes it seems like software gets slower faster than hardware speeds up. So why do so many apps feel poky?
In this series, I’ll look at some of the ways you can examine your system to see what’s taking up resources, and offer some tips on slimming your system down [...]

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Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Ubuntu 9.04)

Posted by suvi under Monitoring, Ubuntu

This guide shows how to install and configure Smokeping on Ubuntu 9.04 to monitor network latency. From the Smokeping web site: “SmokePing
is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display
latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool
to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up
to the minute information [...]

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Install & Configure Nagios in less than 5 minutes

Posted by suvi under Monitoring, Networking, openSuse

Nagios is a free opensource enterprise-class monitoring system released under GPL License. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It’s stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. Nagios is Stable, Reliable, and Respected Platform with 10 years in development scaling to 100,000+ nodes. From my personal [...]

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Nagios configuration Tools (Web frontends or GUI)

Posted by suvi under Monitoring, Networking

Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It’s stable, scalable, supported, and extensible.
Read more at Ubuntu Geek

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Simple Bash Script To Monitor Your Webserver Remotely On Different Ports

Posted by suvi under Linux, Monitoring, Programming

Simple bash script to monitor a webserver on different ports (here
smtp, dns, http & https but it can be customized); I’m sure there
are over 100 available programs doing this but I wanted something with
small memory usage. Also, I only wanted to be notified once,
notifications are received by SMS on my cell. With the software I [...]

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Set Up Virus and Spam Scanning on Ubuntu 8.10

Posted by suvi under Email, Monitoring, Security, Server, Ubuntu

Install of Amavisd-New on Ubuntu 8.10
One of the most frustrating problems with setting up any mail server is the configuration required for anti-virus protection and Spam checking. Amavisd-new provides an excellent tool to help in setting that up. This is a step-by-step process in providing your mail server, the example is Ubuntu 8.10, [...]

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Nagios Network Monitoring System Setup in Ubuntu

Posted by suvi under Monitoring, Networking, Ubuntu

Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external
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Keeping an eye on your Web proxy usage with Squid Graph

Posted by suvi under Monitoring, Networking

Squid Graph is a Perl script that takes your Squid proxy server access.log file and generates a Web page showing you statistics about your proxy accesses and transfers, including the number of cache hits and the percentage of requests that were served by the cache alone. With Squid Graph you can see how well tweaks [...]

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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On CentOS 5.2

Posted by suvi under CentOS, Monitoring

In this article I will describe how you can monitor your CentOS 5.2
server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about
nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU
usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much
configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like
Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action [...]

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Monitoring Multiple Servers with Nagios 3

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As an administrator you may be face with the task of constantly monitoring web servers, mail servers, ftp servers, etc. Basically, your organization wants all of their servers up and running all of the time. Nagios 3 offers an easy set up and configuration to make this happen so that you can
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Using external commands in Nagios

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System monitoring tool Nagios offers a powerful mechanism for receiving events and commands from external applications. External commands are usually sent from event handlers or from the Nagios Web interface. You will find external commands most useful when writing event handlers for your system, or when writing an external application that interacts with Nagios.
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Install and Configure Cacti Monitoring tool in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Server

Posted by suvi under Monitoring, Server, Ubuntu

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for [...]

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