In a previous post we discussed how to improve the performance of BerkeleyDB by tuning the cache size. Let’s see how Paid Monitor can help you keep tabs on the cache hit rate and other critical database metrics. We use a custom monitor created by a perl script, monitor_bdb.pl, which can be downloaded from our repository […]

In our first article, Is Your Business’s Privacy at Risk?, we looked over the different not that technical methods for gathering information about a network you’re interested in. In this article, the second of the series, we will focus on the process of scanning computer networks to identify potential targets. As an ethical hacker you would […]

WAN Monitoring is becoming extremely important for distributed corporate networks. Network managers have learned that service quality is dependent upon an efficient and balanced system. Key activities for this should include WAN Monitoring along with Router monitoring. If a company has more bandwidth than needed, this could increase costs to an already very expensive system. […]

Some hosting companies provide network monitoring. Although there are critical differences between the provider’s internal monitoring and external network monitoring service like monitor.us. First, internal monitoring checks if the server and/or certain processes are up. Providers don’t check if a specific URL is available. So they can check that web server is up, but they […]

Files keep growing!  Then comes the ultimate crash when they’ve grown too much.  If you would like to monitor the number and size of the files in some directory on your server (and who wouldn’t), Mikayel Vardanyan shows you the easy way in Monitoring Files and Directories with Paid Monitor. Mikayel demonstrates how to use […]

The MySQL database is a crucial part of a wide variety of products, particularly web applications. Naturally, it is very important to monitor the health status of MySQL.  However, there is constant disagreement on which of the many MySQL status variables provide the best overview on MySQL health status and indicate that something is not […]

They say that knowledge is power. Whoever the proverbial “they” are that dispensed this fine wisdom were more accurate than they probably could have ever imagined. With each passing year, technology, and our ability to collect massive amounts of data, continues to rapidly advance. These changes are spurning huge paradigm shifts in many industries around […]

we’ve compiled the list of Top 17 frequently used command line monitoring tools that might be useful for every Linux/Unix System Administrator. See on www.tecmint.com