Questions about all kinds of monitoring. E.g. "How to monitor the network traffic?"
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How to trace all the file transfered into my ubuntu server
I just started a task and I'm trying to get a list of the all file transfer that is happening on my server, from outside the server, mean user sending file through ftp or scp just,
This task is just ...
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System Monitoring Tools For Ubuntu
I am looking for System Monitoring tools which are GUI and Cli or Web Based which include Basic Functions such as
CPU Usage
Ram Usage
Swap Usage
Disk Usage ( Space / I/O )
Heat Monitoring
I know ...
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Nagios Notification via Ubuntu notify-osd
I have been looking around for a nagios plugin that offers the ability to have alerts for my hosts and services that i monitor to come through to my ubuntu pc in the form of an onscreen notification.
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Need application/script alerting when system memory is running out
I don't won't to use swap file (due to some bug in kernel or AMD driver).
I wan't to have some util running and monitoring free system memory and alerting me when it becomes less than some specified ...
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How to monitor disk activity?
How do I view my Disk Activity on Ubuntu? For example, How can I monitor what is being written and read from disk as well as the percentage of disk usage?
I am looking for an application similar to ...
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How to monitor folders visited by a user?
I'm working on a project trying to auto-bookmark folders based on how frequently a folder/directory is visited. I have searched exhaustively as to how to monitor folders visited by the current user. ...
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switching wireless card from monitor to normal mode cause system crash
I have a dell inspiron laptop, with wireless card Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4365] and I have installed wireless driver: Broadcom STA/wl for it. Now in order to run airodump I have to put my ...
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How to track the total data transfered in a month
I can see the data transferred (internet Download/Upload) in the current session from the System Monitor. But I want something that keeps track of all the data transferred and I can see how much data ...
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monitor internet usage
I use vnstat to monitor internet data usage over wlan interface but since I also stream videos from my file server...the results are inaccurate. Is there any way to seperate data downloaded from ...
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How do I monitor CPU core usage per thread?
I need this information to optimize the number of worker threads my custom application is allocating.
For example, if I just use top on a single-threaded application on a two-core machine, the 100% ...
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How to install “perf” monitoring tool?
Could someone help me to install perf monitoring tool, please?
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How do you monitor the progress of dd?
dd is a wonder allowing you to duplicate a hard drive to another, completely zero a hard drive, etc. But once you launch a dd command, there's nothing to tell you of it's progress. It just sits there ...
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puppet master monitoring
I have installed puppetmaster in ubuntu 10 and i have installed puppet in all my clients. I have joined all my puppet clients with puppet master. Tell me how to list all the running services of my ...
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How does my sys admin know that I haven't rebooted my system?
I got an email from my system administrator saying that I needed to reboot my system to apply some patches. I had forgotten about it and after a couple of hours I got another mail telling me that I ...
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Best Practices for Monitoring Log Files
What are the best practices for monitoring log files on a single Ubuntu Server (LAMP)?
Are there any specific "go-to" files that should be watched?
I use fail2ban to monitor failed logins, but am ...
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How can I monitor the memory usage?
I have used top to see the memory usage at the moment. But I would like to monitor the memory usage over a period of time. E.g start monitoring and then execute a few commands, and final stop the ...
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How do I monitor 2 apc ups with apcupsd
I have 1 computer that has 2 usb cables plugged into it, each from a different apc ups. I want to monitor both ups from this computer. I created 2 different apcupsd conf files but can't seem to edit ...
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samhain troubleshooting and performance
I am new user to Samhain so don't know much about it except the fact why its used. Now I am finding my samhain-2.8.5 is consuming too much of CPU. Its almost eating up 2 cores and I cant find the ...
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Software to monitor all ubuntu systems
I have more than 150 ubuntu systems connected in a network. Can someone suggest me a good monitoring software to monitor all these systems?? Like i wanna check what are all the ips are up and what are ...
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How can I monitor syslog and send notification based on events?
I'm going to be sending syslog from my one device/server to an Ubuntu server.
On the Ubuntu server (receiving the syslog), I want it to trigger a script when specific syslog messages arrive.
Is this ...
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How to monitor data usage for each account using 'squid'?
Suppose I were to build proxy server using squid with multiple accounts. Is there a way to determine how much data has been consumed by each account?
By data I mean total sum of all bytes which are ...
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Tools To Monitor Ubuntu Server?
I am looking for Web-Based tools to monitor Ubuntu Server ( disk space , ram , etc )
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Worthy iStat equivalent
I'm looking for an iStat equivalent for Ubuntu that can do the following:
show my current CPU usage in the top bar (preferably only 1 for my both cores combined)
show my current up- and download ...
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Automatically detect unresponsive processes
Every once in a while, a process becomes unresponsive for whatever reason. After noticing my laptop fan crying out loud I quickly find and kill the culprit in htop.
My question is: is there a ...
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What tools do you use to monitor a web server?
What tools do you use to monitor a Ubuntu web server? More specifically, I'd like to monitor server uptime, resource usage (RAM, CPU, bandwidth, etc.), Apache, MySQL and PHP.
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Manage/Monitor hundreds of Ubuntu laptops
I am looking for a script/app that will let me know how often laptops are bring used. Our schools have several hundred Ubuntu laptops and I want to record usage data so I can report to our governing ...
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Disk/RAID Monitoring for HP Proliant Servers and Ubuntu 12.04
How can I monitor the status of the hard disks and the RAIDs of an HP Proliant server using Ubuntu 12.04. In Ubuntu 10.04 I could use the cciss-vol-status to query the RAID status periodically but ...
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disable systraq without uninstalling
What's the simplest way to disable systraq, without removing the package?
It is flooding root's mailbox esp. while denyhosts is doing its magic.
It has no service but runs via crontab, so for now I ...
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Is it possible to view per-process statistics on traffic usage? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Specific traffic analysis
In bmon and vnstat I can see whole amount of received and sent traffic. But I can't see its origins (processes that sent those requests). ...
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What are the applications available to monitor a user screen activity?
Is there any application available to monitor a user screen activity for Ubuntu 12.04? Preferably in hidden mode so logged in user may not be able to find out if the user screen is being monitored ...
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How to install Munin
Dear's I need to install Munin on my ubuntu 12.04 for testing purposes but this is my first munin installation and I have no idea how to get this done. I followed some tuts but the lack the flow and ...
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How to monitor network bandwidth per user on Ubuntu server?
I have some shell users on a server with 300GB of monthly data transfer. How can I monitor bandwidth usage per user?
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Log user activity for the last 24 hours by terminal
How can I log the activity of users for the last 24 hours by terminal in a system? Which command will give me this information?
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Monitor disk activity on a per file basis
I am trying to find a program that actively monitors how much data is read and written per second to open files and then sorts files with the highest usage at the top. This would be similar to iotop ...
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How to know what had done on my computer?
Sometimes other users on my computer use my account. I want to know what did they do on in easy way with GUI. I dont want to read logs and such things.
Are there such tools? If yes, please names.
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Configuring nfsen/nfdump on ubuntu
I have configured nafsen/nfdump on ubuntu. When I restart nfsen, it shows following message:
khalid-Dell-System-Inspiron-N4110:/data/nfsen/bin# ./nfsen stop
Shutdown nfcapd: (MYROUTER)[no collector] ...
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How can I monitor my Samba traffic?
I've got a directory shared on my network, using Samba. People on the netwerk use this Samba share to download files from my share to their computers. I'm interested in what files are downloaded most, ...
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Bandwidth monitoring indicator? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Application Indicators are available?
Is there an app for bandwidth monitoring indicator particularly that be placed on the top panel for Unity? Something similar ...
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How do I run a Python script in the background and restart it after a crash?
I have a very simple Python script that I'd like to be always running on my Ubuntu 12.04 server. I thought of using upstart + monit. The problem is that those tools seem rather complicated for a ...
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swatch monitoring tool
when i am trying to install swatch monitoring tool , during installation the following warning appeared : "warning date::manip not found" , I try to install it but i didn't yet !
Can anyone help me ...
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How to detect/monitor the hosts/urls being accessed?
Does anyone know about software that can detect or monitor host / url are being accessed by ubuntu? I want to see what host/url are beeing accessed by installed software or by my internet browser.
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Where can I find the mon-* set of Amazon CloudWatch tools?
Once upon a time, based on the large quantity of websites saying that all I needed to install to administer Amazon services including CloudWatch and Auto-Scaling Groups was the "ec2-api-tools" ...
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Monit - issue to run program that displays image
I'm working on a Windows 7 machine, having a VM for Ubuntu (image disk: 12.04-desktop-i386.iso).
On the VM I installed Monit 5.3.2, and configured some processes and applications.
So I created a ...
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Monitor Internet Usage on Ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can you monitor internet download usage?
Any idea how one would monitor internet usage on a laptop to find out if any unauthorised program is making internet ...
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Passively monitoring CPU activity
So everytime I leave my ubuntu desktop alone, it seems that after a while it starts "working on stuff" -- CPU lights lighting, that busy CPU processing sound being pretty loud, etc. But when I move my ...
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Is there an application that can show memory usage in a similar manner to top?
I would like to leave an application running in my terminal that shows me the memory usage, similar to how top shows CPU and other info, and iotop shows the top I/O users.
Does such an application ...
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Package to notify by email when servers are down
Looking for a linux package to monitor a list of servers and send emails when any are down.
Not looking to code this myself with script...
Any recommendations?
Clarification: looking for something ...
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How I can monitor traffic on a certain port with munin? [closed]
How I can monitor traffic on a certain port with munin?
I already use plugin port_ to see number of connection on a certain port, but I also need to see the traffic.
