Obtaining real-time values of system parameters or events (processor load, server responsiveness, intrusion attempts, …), or getting alerted when certain events happen

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IBM V7000 scripts for monitoring

Hello (I'm no hard core coder:), I try to develop a script to do some very basic monitoring on an IBM SVC. My goal is to get some information about the nodes and my quroum status and then send ...
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Monitoring script started by rc.local

We have a C program which is started using rc.local´. We added a line like this: /usr/local/bin/pc to the rc.local file. pc is a compiled C program. Everything is working fine at the moment. What ...
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Detect systems on which a particular application is running in a network

Is there any way in Linux to find out in how many systems the same (one particular) application is running in a network? and if so, can we figure out IP address of those systems? Update : All ...
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How can I prevent smartd from reporting that it cannot find a disk?

I have smartd monitoring my hard drives. It works fine generally, but the following error window has been consistently popping up every 24 hours. This email was generated by the smartd daemon running ...
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What are some good profiling tools for unix?

I'm looking for some good profiling tools for unix like OProfile. What I would like to see is how the operating system manages the interrupts, cache, read/writes, etc, etc(lots of other intricate ...
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SMTP connectivity issue in Zenoss (“Connection unexpectedly closed”)

I am using Zenoss for monitoring purpose .And I had been using its mail service for long time .Suddenly my mail service in zenoss stopped and started showing <class ...
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Measuring CPU and Memory per user to distribute “cost” of a server

How should I implement approximately correct per-user monitoring on a server? I want a way to split the cost of a server between the users based on their usage. On newer machines (RHEL6) I would use ...
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Linux workstation monitoring tools

I am currently working in a company that runs Linux (openSUSE 12.1) on the workstations (about 200 computers). I am looking for a tool or methods that could allow me to monitor them remotely, upgrade ...
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Network bandwidth measurement on Solaris

I want to install pathtest or a program like it in a Sparc server running solaris 10. The purpose is to make a speedtest server to my remote sites. It is mentioned in pathtest FAQ that it only ...
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Monitor hundreds of hosts for basic parameters

We have several hundred Linux VMs on EC2 and Google compute engine. We want to monitor basic things like disk free space and memory consumption, in the easiest and lightest way possible. Expectedly, ...
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Can I change root's email address or forward all mail to an external address?

I'm getting a lot of mail in my root user's mail account. This appears to be mostly reports and errors from things like cron scripts. I'm trying to work though and solve these things, possibly even ...
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How to transparently monitor SSH access/network traffic in Gentoo/general linux?

What's the most effective way to monitor SSH access in Gentoo Linux? My Gentoo box is operating locally behind my broadband router. I have SSH port forwarding on the router and a DNS entry pointing ...
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Script to send mail if there has been no entry in a log file for a certain amount of time

I am new to shell scripting. How would I write a script which can send an alert mail if there is no entry in the log file for more than 3 hours.
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Linux : See CPU usage by a process for the last second

vmstat 1 Above will print virtual memory statistics each seconds. It will also show the CPU utilization for last second. I have a web server at hand which runs httpd and MySQL. I need to find how ...
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Getting current TCP connection count on a system

Instead of doing wc -l /proc/net/tcp, is there a faster way of doing it? I just need a total count of tcp connections.

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