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 [...]
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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 [...]
10 Lesser Known Linux Terminal Tricks
You're never really a Linux guru if you're not conversant with the terminal. Though certain commands and syntaxes may be cumbersome to memorize, there are several helpful command line tips and tricks to make your work in the terminal much [...]
How to List Packages Having Updates Available in Linux
In this article, I will show you how to list the number of package updates available for install from the command line on Linux systems. I have used following tools apt, apt-get, aptitude, yum, apt-check script and apticron to list updates. Using [...]
How to Show Progress Bar for Linux Commands
Many Linux commands like dd, cp, rsync, and mv are progressive but have no progress bars showing as they run. There is no built-in way to check the progress of ongoing operations except few commands that recently had commits ( [...]
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 are [...]
How to Find Large Files & Directories in Linux
Finding the size of large file and directories in Linux servers is one of the most important tasks that every system administrator came across in his daily tasks. So, every system administrator must know about multiple ways to find out [...]
How to Install EmojiOne Color SVGinOT Font in Ubuntu
SVG in Open Type(SVGinOT) is a standard by Adobe and Mozilla for color OpenType and Open Font Format fonts. It allows font creators to embed complete SVG files within a font enabling full color and even animations. EmojiOne Color Font [...]
How to Customize Shell Variable PS1-PS4 on Bash Prompt
You can see the real beauty of Linux when you use shell commands. There are some tasks which you cannot do in GUI and you have to use the shell. So having knowledge in shell commands, it will keep you [...]
13 Practical df Command Examples to Check Disk Space in Linux
The df command displays the disk space usage for the Linux filesystems. It displays the amount of total and free disk space available on the mounted file systems. Using the command, we can also find used blocks and inodes in [...]
How to Monitor Network Traffic in Linux With nethogs
I love monitoring the network traffic on my linux machine, especially when I want to know the speed at which the data is currently being transferred. Is any process overusing network bandwidth on my Ubuntu system? What is a nice [...]
How to Boot Linux ISO Image Directly from Hard Drive
Hi all, today we'll teach you an awesome interesting stuff related with the Operating System Disk Image and Booting. Now, try many OS you like without installing them in your Physical Hard Drive and without burning DVDs or USBs. We can [...]
How to Monitor Network Usage with nload in Linux
nload is a free linux utility that can help the linux user or sysadmin to monitor network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time by providing two simple graphs: one per incoming traffic and one for outgoing traffic. I really [...]
How to Create Btrfs Filesystem in Linux and its Features
Btrfs (B-tree file system) is a new CoW (copy-on-write) file system for Linux. It's development began at Oracle Corporation in 2007 and it was marked as stable in August 2014. The purpose of Btrfs is to address the lack of [...]