How to Monitor the Server And Network in Linux

September 18th, 2009 Do you wanna know how long the server has been running? It requires just a simple command to monitor the time for which the Linux system has been running. With a single command you can not only know about the uptime, but also the number of users that have currently logged on and the system load averages for the past 1, 5 and 15 minutes.

September 11th, 2007 Most guide to adding multiple IP addresses on Linux starts with the Microsoft-like solution of using ifconfig. While the solution is correct it doesn't survive a reboot or even a network restart.

July 7th, 2006 Finally my (unmanaged dedicated) server has been deployed (under 48 hours). Now my actual work begins.

June 3rd, 2007 Linux comes with automatic setup for dual-monitors like windows. However I found the gnome applet rather buggy and unusable.

April 29th, 2007 I needed to run Synergy server for my triple monitor setup at startup of Gnome session. crontab isn't going to help here.

July 30th, 2007 It has been several months that I fully migrated to Linux. The whole company has moved 100% to Linux, all servers, desktop ...

September 3rd, 2008 Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements.

August 12th, 2007 One of the main challenges of managing multiple dedicated web / database servers is the ability to centrally monitor and manage them, automate tasks which requires out-of-band access like rebooting the server or find out if the server is dying and arrange for replacement ahead of time etc. Unless you are a very big web service provider, chances are you are using dedicated servers from one or more of dedicated web hosting providers.

September 26th, 2008 We recently bought several high-end computers for our office which will be used with Linux Operating System (Fedora 8). The price including VAT comes to Rs 19, 214.

April 22nd, 2007 BSNL DataOne provides software for connecting to Linux. However I found that you can setup much easier and without using their custom software.

May 12th, 2007 Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux.

September 19th, 2009 After configuring services on the network in Linux system, it's important for you to keep tabs on the ports that are actually listening on the system's network interfaces. This is all more important because open ports are evidence of an intrusion.

August 21st, 2007 A guide to easily disable IPv6 support on your Linux workstation / server: 1. Add the two lines, if not already present, to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off For Fedora 7 you should add the command to blacklist instead as shown below: blacklist net-pf-10 Note: I haven't personally tested on Fedora 7.

May 26th, 2007 rdiff-backup is a popular, free, open source mirroring and incremental backup system for posix based operating systems like linux & Mac OS X. It uses rysnc algorithm through librsync but it doesn't use rsync.

October 20th, 2007 Modern DSL modems by default allows you to establish a DSL link through them to provide internet connectivity. The actual connection is handled by software running on your computer.