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Archive for the 'Monitoring' Category


Installing WeatherBug For Linux

Posted by matthartley on 13th May 2008

After much thought and ongoing questions regarding the best way to install the new WeatherBug for Linux application, I have opted to create a simple how-to here at Ubuntu Geek.

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How Ubuntu saved me a Bomb of money!

Posted by Dr Saurabh Bhatia on 9th May 2008


Date: October 2001
Place: Meerut
Problem: Desktop hanging again and again after 5 mins from boot up
Details: Cyrix Machine, running Windows ME
Follow-Up: Complete breakdown
Post-Mortem: CPU fan malfunctioned. Complete burnout of the CPU.
Cost: Whoops!!!

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Dstat - Versatile resource statistics tool

Posted by admin on 4th March 2008

Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, nfsstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.

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netspeed - Traffic monitor applet for GNOME

Posted by admin on 20th February 2008

Traffic monitor applet for GNOME.Netspeed is an applet that shows how much traffic occurs on a specified network device (ethernet card, wireless LAN card, or dial-up).

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mytop - top like query monitor for MySQL

Posted by admin on 6th February 2008

mytop is a console-based (non-gui) tool for monitoring the threads and overall performance of a MySQL 3.22.x, 3.23.x, and 4.x server. It runs on most Unix systems (including Mac OS X) which have Perl, DBI, and Term::ReadKey installed. And with Term::ANSIColor installed you even get color. If you install Time::HiRes, you’ll get good real-time queries/second stats.

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