Tag: system monitoring

Link: List Of Tools To Monitor The Health Of Your Linux System

Achieving good performance from a computer or network is an important part of system administration.The monitoring and maintenance of the system is the most important task listed in the checklists for daily tasks of a system and network administrator. There are many commands line utilities created for this purpose.

This article describes how you can monitor services and attributes of Linux/UNIX servers using command line, such as:

  • CPU load
  • Bandwidth
  • Memory usage
  • Disk usage
  • Logged in users
  • Running processes
  • etc.

Let’s start.

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List Of Tools To Monitor The Health Of Your Linux System (Unixmen)

Link: Lm-sensors: Monitoring CPU And System Hardware Temperature

It is very important to keep an eye on your system temperature. Because overheating may cause unexpected hardware failures. This brief tutorial describes how to monitor your CPU and other system hardware temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages using a command line utility called lm-sensors.

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Lm-sensors: Monitoring CPU And System Hardware Temperature (Unixmen)

Link: List of Free And Open Source Monitoring System

The Linux monitoring systems are often used to follow system resources, such as CPU load, the amount of free RAM, network traffic statics or memory consumption. Which are ones from the most important tasks for every administrators. Furthermore, those tools notify the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) when something interrupts or goes down which makes their life easier.

From those monitoring tools we will list the 7 most important in this article which will be described and identified by giving their features and mentioning their current version.

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List of Free And Open Source Monitoring System (Unixmen)