Linux Tutorials on the topic “monitoring”

• Server Monitoring With Icinga On Ubuntu 11.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: monitoring, ubuntu • Comments: 2

  Server Monitoring With Icinga On Ubuntu 11.10 Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to install Icinga on an Ubuntu 11.10 server to monitor this server and another Ubuntu 11.10 server.

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• Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Squeeze

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, monitoring • Comments: 0

  Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Squeeze In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Squeeze 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 such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you recognize current or upcoming problems, and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.

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• Icinga Configuration For Nginx On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 11.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, monitoring, nginx, ubuntu, web server • Comments: 0

  Icinga Configuration For Nginx On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 11.10 Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to serve the Icinga Web interface from an nginx server on Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 11.10 (the tutorial might work for Debian Squeeze as well but I didn't test; Squeeze's Icinga version is a lot older than the versions for Wheezy and Ubuntu 11.10, so there might be small differences).

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• Centralized RSYSLOG Server Monitoring

  Author: SamTzu • Tags: debian, monitoring • Comments: 29

  Centralized RSYSLOG Server Monitoring This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install RSYSLOG server on Debian 6 (Squeeze) and how to send syslog data to it from multiple client servers. We will also show how to install an Apache webserver and a MySQL database server to gather the syslog data and how to install LogAnalyzer to easily browse the collected data with a web-browser.

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• How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console

  Author: EugeneR. • Tags: monitoring, other • Comments: 0

  How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console This guide provides an overview on how to monitor and manage IPMI Management Console with Verax NMS. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a standardized computer system interface used by system administrators to manage a computer system and monitor its operation.

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• Server Monitoring With Icinga On Debian Squeeze

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, monitoring • Comments: 7

  Server Monitoring With Icinga On Debian Squeeze Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to install Icinga on a Debian Squeeze server to monitor this server and another Debian Squeeze server.

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• Monitoring ESX/ESXi Servers

  Author: EugeneR. • Tags: monitoring, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 0

  Monitoring ESX/ESXi Servers The purpose is to highlight the most important topics related to setting up ESX/ESXi monitoring as well as applications hosted within managed virtual machines (a MySQL database is used in this tutorial).

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• How To Automatically Shut Down Your Computer After A Download Finishes

  Author: PlayHazel • Tags: ubuntu, monitoring, desktop • Comments: 7

  How To Automatically Shut Down Your Computer After A Download Finishes Sometimes you want to download something but don't want to wait until it finishes so you can shut down the computer. In this case you can use Sentinella.

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• Installing Full-Featured Rsyslog 5.7.x On CentOS 5.x

  Author: poustchi • Tags: centos, monitoring • Comments: 1

  Installing Full-Featured Rsyslog 5.7.x On CentOS 5.x This tutorial shows how you can install new generation of syslog servers by using Rsyslog. According to Rsyslog web site (www.rsyslog.com), Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, syslog/tcp, fine grain output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations and the ability to filter on any message part. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user.

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• Installing Nagios On Debian Lenny And Monitoring A Debian Lenny Server

  Author: wayner • Tags: debian, monitoring • Comments: 4

  Installing Nagios On Debian Lenny And Monitoring A Debian Lenny Server Nagios is a monitoring solution for complex IT infrastructures, Nagios is easy to implement and can be extended by custom-modules, called plugins. In this howto I explain howto install Nagios on a Debian Lenny host and make the configuration for it. Furthermore we are going to install a second Debian machine which we monitor with remote and local plugins.

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