Questions about all kinds of monitoring. E.g. "How to monitor the network traffic?"
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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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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 to get sensor readings for recent hardware?
How do I best update lm-sensors to work with recent hardware?
I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10 server, and get the following:
$ sudo apt-get install lm-sensors
$ sensors
No sensors found! ...
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How to tell what applications are accessing the hard drive and how frequently?
My hard drive is going crazy and I don't know what application is doing it.
Are there any linux tools for profiling what processes are accessing drives and how frequently?
top, htop and the like ...
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Is there an user activity monitor/alarm?
There once was a tool called Active Work Tracker for Windows from Brigsoft.
What it basically did was to monitor user activity, sound alarm after a predefined period (say 60 minutes), wait another ...
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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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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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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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Monitoring inbound and outbound internet traffic
Is there software I can install to enable me to monitor inbound and outbound internet traffic for security reasons?
I recently installed ubuntu and loving it because of speed and interface. I want to ...
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How do I monitor power consumption?
The powertop program shows the power usage, but only after about five minutes. Before that, it shows:
no ACPI power usage estimate available
That's one of the limitations of the powertop ...
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Best log file monitoring tool for ubuntu server
I'm trying to find the best Log File monitoring tool for Ubuntu 9.10 server?
Is there any web-based gui tool which could be operated by anyone, that monitor any log files?
I already tried splunk and ...
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How to make sure apt-get has the latest version of Software
How to make sure apt-get has the latest version of application or software; I tried installing monit but the latest version that I got was 1.5 from apt-get but the site http://mmonit.com/monit/ has ...
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Monitor which process changed the file
I want to know which process changed files in some directory.
I had a look at inotify-tools, but it doesn't show the pid. I also look at fileschanged utility, but in my case it doesn't show anything ...
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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. ...
