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 Topic: System Administration and ConfigurationThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
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Posted on Jul 10, 2006 - 07:30 PM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 2138 Reads
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BixData is a system, application, and network monitoring tool which allows you to easily monitor nearly every aspect of your servers. It can be used for general reporting, for sending notifications when problems arise, or for automatic maintenance and repairs - by executing scripts when errors or particular conditions arise.The BixData system is made of three separate parts. The BixAgent runs on any machine you want to monitor. The BixServer is used to monitor machines remotely and to keep track of many different machines. The BixDesktop is a graphical interface that is used to setup and interact with the rest of the system. http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_bixdata
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Posted on Jun 20, 2006 - 07:33 PM ::: by solrac ::: 1154 Reads
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The typical UNIX administrator has a key range of utilities, and tricks of the trade he or she uses regularly to aid in the process of keeping their system running smoothly. A majority of the tricks come through years of experience and a desire to ease the system administrator's life. This Study provides examples of how to identify and diagnose the cause of a slow running UNIX system (free reg. req'd) to get your machine back to running properly and quickly.
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Posted on Jun 11, 2006 - 08:26 PM ::: by solrac ::: 1141 Reads
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Learn about several basic database concepts, including schemas, tables, and column data types, and get a simple introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL). This article -- focusing on the database developer role (free reg. req'd) -- presents the basic data types you can use to store data in an Apache Derby database.
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Posted on May 31, 2006 - 05:45 PM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 1127 Reads
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This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over. http://www.howtoforge.com/mirroring_with_rsync
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Posted on May 22, 2006 - 02:18 AM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 1356 Reads
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In this article I will describe how to monitor your 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 (like "We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly."), and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services. http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_monit_munin
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Posted on May 14, 2006 - 09:16 PM ::: by gg234 ::: 2669 Reads
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syslog-ng is the world's most flexible and scalable audit trail processing tool for organizations of any size. It provides a centralised, securely stored log of all devices on your network, whatever platform they run on. And syslog-ng also incorporates a host of powerful features, including filtering based on message content, as well as customisable data mining and analysis capabilities. Read Full article here
One more thing is most of the users look for web interface for syslog-NG for this Check here.
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Posted on May 12, 2006 - 06:02 PM ::: by solrac ::: 1056 Reads
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Examine how to use the Network Information Service (NIS) to make UNIX and Linux work together (free reg. req'd), and how to use the Network File System (NFS) to share file systems, both with direct links and through the automounter.
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Posted on May 11, 2006 - 05:17 PM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 1674 Reads
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This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node. This cluster is load-balanced by a high-availability load balancer that in fact has two nodes that use the Ultra Monkey package which provides heartbeat (for checking if the other node is still alive) and ldirectord (to split up the requests to the nodes of the MySQL cluster). http://www.howtoforge.com/loadbalanced_mysql_cluster_debian
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Posted on May 08, 2006 - 07:15 PM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 1088 Reads
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This is a brief tutorial on how to sync websites from your Linux system to your palm for offline reading. The websites are stored in Plucker format. You will need to install the Plucker viewer for palm which can be found at the Plucker website. The software you will use to grab the websites and convert them into Plucker format is called Sunrise. To transfer the Plucker files to a Palm you will need pilot-link. http://www.howtoforge.com/palm_syncing_websites
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Posted on May 04, 2006 - 05:25 PM ::: by tylerdurden ::: 2712 Reads
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Zabbix has the capability to monitor just a about any event on your network from network traffic to how many papers are left in your printer. It produces really cool grahps.In this howto we install software that has an agent and a server side. The goal is to end up with a setup that has a nice web interface that you can show off to your boss. It is a great open source tool that lets you know what is out there. http://www.howtoforge.com/zabbix_network_monitoring
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