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BackupRotator - Utility to rotate backup and log files

July 12, 2011 · Monitoring, Server · (No comments)

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BackupRotator is a small Java utility to rotate files of any kind (including backup files, log files, etc.) and to be able to keep the newest n files.It is a program that allows files to be “rotated” with an upper limit on the number of files that exist.

Basically, it is given a filename(s) and a number n in a configuration file and it renames the filename(s) such that there it forms an increasing list filename1, filename2, up to the smaller of n or as many as are available. If there are more than n files when the program is run, the oldest files get deleted.
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TagPlayer 0.2.07 released and PPA installation instructions included

February 24, 2011 · Monitoring · (No comments)

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TagPlayer is a Boffin like application. It allows the user to play music based on the music’s lastfm tags.It uses pylast for Last.fm API access, GStreamer for music playback and pyGTK for GUI. The project is developped using Quickly for fast prototyping
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Downtimed: System downtime monitoring and reporting tool

September 23, 2010 · General, Monitoring · 3 comments

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downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

downtimed is a daemon process which is intended to be started automatically from system boot scripts every time when the operating system of a server starts. First the daemon logs its findings about the previous downtime to a specified logging destination as well as in a database file which can be displayed with downtimes command.
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Linux Server Monitoring with Bijk

September 2, 2010 · Monitoring · 2 comments

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How you can monitor your server and performs usage? With Bijk you get online 30 graphs about Load, CPU, memory, traffic, Apache, PostreSQL and others with Alerts. Bijk can be used on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and with Cloud providers. Continue reading →

nethogs - Net top tool grouping bandwidth per process

August 18, 2010 · Monitoring · 2 comments

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NetHogs is a small ‘net top’ tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. If there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this. This makes it easy to indentify programs that have gone wild and are suddenly taking up your bandwidth.
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