The Linux directory tree obeys the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which allows Linux users and developers to locate system files in standard directories. Since Linux is a very file-oriented operating system, it is important that you know how to find files. [...]
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Chkservice - A Tool to Manage Systemd Units on Linux
Systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems which introduces the concept of systemd units and provides a number of features such as parallel startup of system services at boot time, on-demand activation of daemons, etc. It helps to manage [...]
Supervisor - Monitor your Linux Servers and Processes
Some users need only to control process state and don’t want or need full-blown shell access to the machine on which the processes are running. They often don't need to know processes which listen on “low” TCP ports and often need to [...]
How to Schedule Job on Linux using Cron, Anacron and at Commands
Job scheduling is a feature that allows a user to submit a command or program for execution at a specified time in the future. On a Linux server, it is important that certain tasks run at certain times The execution of the [...]
How to Completely Remove Mysql and Install MariaDB 10
We have some popular database tools which are independent and commonly used. Normally you can use two different relational database management system (RDBMS) on the same server if they don't use the same port but it is not advised if you [...]
How to Install lm Sensors on Linux
lm-sensors provides a hardware health monitoring driver for Linux. It's used by system administrators to check the health status of their hardware. It is also used to monitor the hardware infrastructure in servers and be very valuable in mission critical [...]
How to Add Linux and Windows Hosts on Centreon 2.8
Centreon has the particularity to simplify the process of adding hosts and services to monitor with an intuitive method. This process has changed with the new version of Centreon which includes now a new functionality called IMP (Instant Monitoring Platform) which [...]
"s-tui" - Terminal Tool to Monitoring CPU Temperature in Linux
For some Linux users, the terminal is the most environment used for their work. It sometimes happens that you would like to do everything on your terminal such as having a UI monitoring tool for the local processes may be [...]
How to Install Centreon on Centos 7 for Monitoring
For Sysadmins, it is very important to be able to check the state of each service and equipment provided on the network. You must be able to be informed and to react anytime if a problem occurs. It exists some [...]
Gtop - A Linux System Monitoring Dashboard for Terminal
When you work on Linux server or on your personal computer, you can need sometimes to monitor the different processes in progress. This can be done with some commands but the result sometimes appears with numbers without a graph on [...]
How to Install BigBlueButton on Ubuntu 16.04
There are a lot of open source web conferencing tools available these days and there are also a number of budget-friendly alternatives that still offer the same features and functions. Sometimes you can need web conferencing tools for remote collaboration, [...]
How to Monitor Hosts using Nagios NRPE on Debian 9
In our recent article we have shown how to install nagios core on Debian 9 to monitor some remote hosts's services. To do that you will need to install Nagios NRPE daemon and plugins on the remote hosts. It is a package that will [...]
Terminus - A Super Modern Terminal App for Linux
The terminal is the Linux tool which is mostly used and it sometimes appears as our default environment. We can need to tune it by modifying its appearance. So you can need to make it more attractive for you. On [...]
7 Steps to Install Nagios 4 on Debian 9
Nagios is an open source server and network monitoring tool which monitors some services (CPU, HTTP, SMTP, storage disk, temperature, etc) of your servers, network devices and alerts you when a particular service that's being monitored goes wrong. It will also [...]