When it comes to monitoring your Linux system, few tools can rival Conky. This lightweight system monitoring utility can help you to keep an eye on virtually any aspect of your system, and it offers a huge list of options to choose from. But this flexibility comes at a price: all Conky’s settings are stored [...]
This is a 3 part posting that covers how you can setup 2-way Nagios alerting via SMS.
The series is broken down as such:
1. Part 1: Background and Requirements (this article)
2. Part 2: Sending SMS messages from Nagios
3. Part 3: Acknowledging SMS messages
For those that wish to [...]
In this article I will describe how to install munin (http://munin.projects.linpro.no/) on 2 computers, but you can add more if you want to, this will allow us to remotely monitor system performance and activity.
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Network UPS Tools is a collection of programs which provide a
common interface for monitoring and administering UPS hardware. The primary goal of the Network UPS Tools (NUT) project is to
provide reliable monitoring of UPS hardware and ensure safe
shutdowns of the systems which are connected. This document describes how to configure one machine connected to the [...]
Nagios is (in my opinion) one of the finest availability and monitoring solutions available. The stability, extendability and cost effectiveness (it is free under the GPL), are second to none (again, my opinion). That being said, it is far from being the easiest monitoring solution to implement. The build process itself, while not being overly [...]
In this article I will describe how you can monitor multiple systems with munin. 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. I will install the munin client on all systems that are to be monitored (including [...]
In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Mandriva 2008.0 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 [...]
This guide will walk you through the setup process for implementing NDT running under Ubuntu 7.10 server. For those unfamiliar with NDT, it is a network performance testing application. NDT will measure the throughput between your server and the desktops that you run the java client from.
Some of the issues that NDT can identify on your [...]
Originally posted on Zabbix 1.4.4 from source on Debian Etch. This guide will walk you through installing Zabbix 1.4.4 from source on Debian Etch. 1.4.4 has many improvements over what is currently available in apt, and it’s not hard so you might as well do it this way. *Note: this walkthrough assumes that you [...]
HardInfo can gather information about your system’s hardware and operating system, perform benchmarks,and generate printable reports either in HTML or in plain text formats. Currently it knows about PCI,ISA PnP, USB, IDE, SCSI, Serial and parallel port devices.
Install hardinfo in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install hardinfo
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