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 [...]
MONITORING
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Install "stacer" Monitoring and Optimising Tool on Linux
Stacer is a GUI based open source resource monitoring and system optimizer tool for Linux. This app has a nice looking dashboard which provides CPU, Memory, Disk and System information. The new vesrion of stacer provides additional monitoring panel for process viewing [...]
14 Command Line Tools to Check CPU Usage in Linux
CPU performance is one aspect of measuring the performance of a system. Monitoring the performance of CPU is essential to debug processes inside any system, manage system resources, making system decisions, and evaluating and examining systems in real time. There [...]
How to Setup osquery to Monitor Security Threat on Ubuntu
OSQUERY is an open source tool developed by Facebook for querying various information related to the state of your machines like running processes, loaded Kernel modules, active logged in users, active listening ports etc. This system instrumentation framework make low-level [...]
Psutil - Library to Fectch Running Process and System Utilization Information
Psutil is a python based library, it provides an interface to monitor your computer system's resources. You can use this utility and its available APIs to find out all details about currently running processes, their resource consumption like memory, network [...]
How to Setup Naemon Networking Monitoring Tool in Linux
Naemon is an Open Source system and network monitoring application which watches hosts and other services that you specify, alerts you when things go bad and notifies you when they get better. Naemon is based on Nagios 4.0.2 and aims [...]
How to Setup Graphite with Statsd on an Ubuntu 16.04
Hi, today we are going to show you installation and configuration of Graphite and Statsd on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. In short Graphite is a highly scalable real-time graphing system which provides real-time visualization and storage of numeric time-series data. This [...]