How-To: tail multiple files with multitail
Many times you will end up tailing multiple files simultaneously. There is a sweet linux utility called multitail that will let you tail multiple files at th...
monitoring
How-To: find which program consumes your bandwidth with nethogs
Let’s continue the network monitoring serie with yet another use case…. the “What program is using my bandwidth?” problem while not imposible to solve, still...
How-To: monitor network bandwidth usage with vnstat
There is many tools out there that help in monitoring network usage, collect statistics and generate graphs so we can view what happened at a given date/time...
Mastering Top
top is most likely one of the most known Linux command and also one of the most used one, however most people do not take full advantage of its capabilities.
How-To: Running Munin 2.0 on Debian Squeeze (6.0)
Munin 2.0 has been released and a .deb package has even been backported to Debian Squeeze!.
How-To: Monitor your servers with SNMP and Cacti — page 3
3. Adding new devices to cacti
How-To: Monitor your servers with SNMP and Cacti — page 2
Now that we have our snmp server up and running, we are going to install cacti to manage the snmp server in our network.
How-To: Monitor your servers with SNMP and Cacti
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol for managing networks. Each managed entity in the network will run an snmp server (snmpd) which is go...
Awstats: Error: Couldn’t open server log file … logresolvemerge.pl … access.log …. No such file or directory
After an upgrade from Debian 3.1 (sarge) to Debian 4.0 (etch), awstats stopped automatically updating.
Spying Apache server activity and performance with mod_status
On Debian based systems such as Ubuntu… Apache comes with mod_status compiled in by default.
nload, a network traffic analyser
nload is a ncurse based network traffic analyser. Being a ncurse based tools, you do not need to start X in order to use that software which is necessary whe...
Monitor your computer with saidar
saidar is a curses-based tool using libstatgrab library in order to gather information about your system state.