Why Monitor?
A good question to get started with. Monitoring Your Server(s) and Infrastructure is one of the most fundamental and basic management frameworks that should be in place for anyone who owns or controls...
View ArticleWhat to Monitor on your Web Hosting Server
After having discussed why we should monitor our IT infrastructure, the next logical step is to decide what we should monitor. As a case in point, we will consider a Web Hosting server as the box we...
View ArticleTypes of Monitoring
Lets face it, for the sysadmin, there are a heap of tools that they can use to check on the status of a server. What we are going to do is to take a look a some very basic system-based … Continue...
View ArticleEvolution of Monitoring
What I am going to discuss today is what I will refer to as the Evolution of monitoring. All of these methods are used to monitor both the hardware and software that make up any given system or...
View ArticleWhat We Monitor
On Our Linux Web Servers we monitor a fair few things. We always have the most important (to us) info at hand. We monitor the Servers and graph the resultant information. At the moment, we monitor...
View ArticleAlarming And Alerting
Alarming and Alerting is all about Automating the System Administration tasks. We have been happily monitoring our servers for a few weeks and have gathered a decent amount of data around what is...
View ArticleCapacity Management
You often hear all sorts of questions regarding web hosting, but one that crops up a lot is “How many customers can I put on a server with x specs” The most common answer to this question is “it...
View ArticleOther Sysadmin Tools
Every Sysadmin has their set of favourite tools to monitor and manage their Servers, so today, I thought I would share another couple of mine. Years ago, when Running a VPS came across vpsinfo – a nice...
View ArticleMore Console tools
You are probably quite familiar with top and that it is a useful command line tool. Well we are going to look at a couple of top-like tools that provide a diffent view of what is running on your...
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