Oct 26, 2021 Posted by newlife007

Installing Zabbix 5.4 on Ubuntu Server 20.04

Installing Zabbix 5.4 on Ubuntu Server 20.04 Introduction Zabbix is an Open Source monitoring solution similar to Nagios. In this post we will cover basic installation on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. The steps listed here assume you have an Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS installed and running. Installation of Zabbix First step is to add the Zabbix repository to your server. $ wget... read more

Aug 26, 2014 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving Disk Information and Freespace Using PowerShell 2

It is always nice to be able to retrieve disk information for the systems. Alot of scripts are used to gather the information so Administrators can keep ahead of the demand for space. With PowerShell 2 it is simple to retrieve the information in a single line using the win32_volume WMI class call. Now in this example I am only retrieving four items and rounding the values to two decimal places. There are... read more

Oct 16, 2013 Posted by newlife007

Monitoring Your System with Munin on Fedora

Have a few servers and want to get some stats on IO, CPU, networking and other data don’t have full blown monitoring, this is where Munin can help out. Installation is simple Install Munin. $ sudo yum install munin munin-node Enable and start munin-node service $ sudo systemctl enable munin-node.service $ sudo systemctl start munin-node.service Set the password for the Munin id to access the  site $... read more

Jun 21, 2013 Posted by newlife007

Monitoring Filesystem Events with incron on RHEL 6

Have you ever wanted to know when a file is changed or accessed by the system or user? There is a program that does just that task called Inotify cron (incron). Incron is for monitoring filesystem activity. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods incron... read more

Sep 20, 2012 Posted by newlife007

Windows 2008 R2 Cluster Report with PowerShell

You know how it is, manager love reports and really we geeks like some reports as well. Recently I was tasked to generate a health check report for some of the Windows 2008 R2 Active / Passive clusters using PowerShell. With Windows 2008 R2 cluster Microsoft has provided FailoverClusters modules as well as the deprecated cluster command. There is no per say report to check for a status on clusters. Using... read more