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Looking for software to monitor scheduled emails and notify when they don't arrive or contain errors
We, like many others I assume, get a lot of emails from systems running automated task (backups and such). Those emails should arrive on certain schedules and not contain error messages. If they ...
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I need to replace munin with something more scalable
I have used munin on multiple servers for many years with great success, however with more than 100 munin-nodes and when there is load on the clients, the processing is timing out.
I have made some ...
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Logging with Resource Monitor?
I am having sudden spikes in disk read activity, which can tie up my system for a few seconds at a time. I would like to figure out the cause of this before I set my machine to go live.
With ...
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“Enterprise Monitoring Solution” with the lightest agent?
I have a network of disparate remote VPS / "cloud" / colocated servers that I would like to monitor from a central location, using open source software like ...
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What is the best tool for linux monitoring? [closed]
I need to monitor services like Apache, Mysql , Mongrel, Rails, Exim and also Load, Network, I/O on a linux server ...
I do know Cacti, Nagios ...
Is there any other better monitoring tool ?
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How do I find out which websites are slowing down my server?
Are there any good tools out there that I can use to find out which websites are the biggest drain on my Windows 2003 web server's resources? The server has been steadily slowing to a crawl and I want ...
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Know of an infrastructure monitoring tool that baselines and then measures/alerts variance?
I'm searching for an infrastructure resource monitoring tool and after a day of Googling with no success, I'm hoping someone can help me locate it. I read about this about 6 months ago (I 'think' I ...
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Linux Cumulative User, System CPU Usage of Running Process?
On Linux (and other Unix-like OS's if there's a general answer), is there an easy way to get an output similar to the time command (current real time, user, and system CPU usage totals) for a process ...
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Monit - how to check loadavg only when no backup is running?
I've got Monit configuration with:
check system example.com
if loadavg (1min) > 4 then alert
if loadavg (5min) > 2 then alert
I want to get rid of messages every time backup is ...
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How to free used memory in Windows Server 2008 R2?
The Task Manager and the Resource Monitor say that the memory is 95% used, but the sum of the memory used by the listed processes don't sum up to 20%. Where this 75% of usage is coming from? How to ...
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Solaris: Historic disk space availability
Is there a Solaris utility which reports the minimum free space on a file system over the preceding 168 hours (one week)? The concern with using a nightly df is that there might be intraday jobs which ...
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How to combine RRD files to an overview graph? (rrdtool, collectd)
I have collect runnings which puts performancedate like cpu usage oder network bandwith into rrd files.
My problem is, that i have a single file for each node in the cluster.
How can I get an ...
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Getting an alert when my oracle database goes up or down
How can I get an e-mail alert when my oracle database comes up or down?
I have a database that I need to know when it goes down (it would be nice to know if it has come back up), preferably from a ...
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Good free software to track and graph memory and CPU usage on Windows?
There are many questions on Linux memory tracking, but I haven't seen any for Windows. In my case however its a Windows XP Pro box I need to track the memory and CPU usage of.
The reason I need it is ...
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Tracking Individual Processes in Windows Server 2008, Is It Possible?
I'm hoping we can get a solution together on this. I'm looking to try and narrow down what's happening on a windows server 2008 box that's causing us to have to reboot every 2 weeks. Resource ...
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Resource Monitor Disk Usage scale
I'm sure this is going to be very dependent on the harddrives and other hardware that we have in our machine, but I have no idea how to read these graphs.
This graph looks nice and low.
This one ...
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Perfmon % Processor Time vs. task manager's CPU usage
I'm new to using Perfmon and performance monitoring in general (so go easy on me please ;)
I know that Perfmon doesn't have anything exactly like Task Manager's CPU usage display, but I'm trying to ...
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How to monitor user activity with a sonicwall tz205?
How can I centrally monitor users' browsing habits using a Sonicwall tz205, and running on a windows network?
I am looking for a report that will show me LAN user's ip address and websites/services ...
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Can Resource Monitor include Hyper-V machines memory consumption in its results?
Windows Resource Monitor is a nice (and built-in) tool providing a fast overview of resource utilization. On a server with Hyper-V installed, it correctly shows the CPU and disk activity generated by ...
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How to monitor CPU usage on a device running embedded Linux and BusyBox?
I recently began working with a device that uses embedded Linux and BusyBox. It is very stripped down, and does not have iostat or sar. It also doesn't have dpkg or apt for package management. The ...
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Track resource usage of individual website on shared hosting
I have a Centos 6 web server (Apache-itk, PHP, MySQL) with ISPconfig. I have about 100 websites on this webserver, all of them belong to me.
I must be able to track how much of resources (traffic, ...
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How can I log the most CPU-Intensive processes in regular intervals?
I have a server which is idling below 5% cpu load most of the time, except from a few times a day where I can see some minor cpu spikes. I found out about this by using PRTG.
How can I find out what ...
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How can I see which applications have accessed a certain file within a given time period on Linux?
Is it possible on Linux to find out which applications have accessed a certain file in the
last 24 hours?
I've come with a few possible solutions:
Watch lsof. It works, but it's constrained to ...
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Torque and maui node status
I am new for torque and maui.
I was checking for node state to looking for which nodes are free and which nodes are in use.
For torque one command is pbsnodes. Which gives status and other info ...
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System process hogging disk, can't find why
Recenty I have noticed my hard drive activity unusually increased, to the point the system is sometimes bogged down.
Using resource monitor, it shows the system process writing constantly to a file ...
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Linux: How do I arrive at an acceptable number of threads (/proc/loadavg)?
This question relates to monitoring. The tool that I use (Check_MK) sets a number of threads warning limit at 2000. This number is taken from /proc/loadavg:
[foo@bar ~]$ cut /proc/loadavg -f4 -d\
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How to monitor server resources? [duplicate]
I would like to monitor the resources of my servers such as CPU, memory, disk space and many other things. I'm using Nagios + Centreon to do this, but I would like to have a historical view of the use ...
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How to test HTTP Requests/sec + CPU + RAM usage?
Trying to evaluate the requirements of my Web application, I wanted to put it under load and at the same time check how it scales on memory and CPU.
But running AB/HTTPerf and htop/"pidstat -C" in a ...
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Tracking down a resource starvation issue
My Ubuntu 9.04 server on Slicehost is periodically freezing, and not responding to ssh or console access. I believe it is some kind of resource starvation or swap death issue.
This has been ...
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Linux - get a report of what programs a command line perl script calls and the files it produces and uses
I have a Perl script that calls about 10 other perl scripts some of which call Python scripts. Each of those produce files which the other programs read. It's pretty complex.
What I would like to ...
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MRTG does not give precise value or converts wrong?
By example:
I have SNMP response value 59757296, passed to MRTG via conf ("business as usual").
The value is in bytes (I checked specs of the target device plus web interface of device confirms).
In ...
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How to determine the cause of high resource usage for two hours last week?
I know there are several tools I can use to find out what's causing heavy network and CPU usage right now, but every so often on my server I'll check the logs and notice that there were periods of ...
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linux system resource analyzer
I have a debian 5 machine that is running php, apache, node.js, and mysql.
I would like some report-generating software that will show cpu, memory usage, and network traffic over time. something ...
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Apache monitoring busy vs idle workers
For Apache, I want to monitor
Busy workers
Idle workers
Queued requests
Monitoring would be done throughout the day, taking a sample every min., in a graphical manner.
If such a tool is not ...
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What utilities do you use and how do you use them when benchmarking your harddrive subsystem for a SAN replacement?
So, I have a series of questions into ServerFault about LeftHand SAN's (Questions 1441 and 4478). One of the responses I received questioned the throughput of the iSCSI data returning from the SAN ...
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monitor load average every 1 or 5 seconds and do some actions if it's higher than ex. 5
How it can be done without writing additional daemon?
P.S. I can't use cron because I need lesser time intervals.
P.P.S. Debian 6 x64
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Check server resource usage by user on a CentOS VPS
How can I check which account/user is abusing/using the most resources on my VPS?
Quite often, web hosts suspend an account citing high resource usage. How can I check the same on my VPS? I have root ...
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Nagios Best Practise
I have installed Nagios on my network, and I have some beginner questions.
I would like to get some "best practice" information about the following types of server:
Web Server
Exchange Server
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Monitor system resources and save a log
I got a server which works fine for a while and then suddenly eats up all the memory and then hangs.
I need to be able to monitor it and thought that I could use the Resource Monitor. but I haven't ...
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Window title bar disappears - how to find culprit?
I am having a problem on some PCs where the window title bar disappears, then network drive connections get broken and various error messages concerning inadequate resources appear.
Yet Proc Explorer ...
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open source job/process management/monitoring/control system [closed]
I'm looking for an open source solution for the following:
I have jobs that need to run continuously. The jobs are applications or scripts. If they fail, they need to be restarted. If they fail, ...
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Tracking client's disk usage and bandwidth
I run a shared server (Ubuntu Linux) with up to 20 client websites on it.
Does anyone know of an application that will allow me to track the disk usage of each client (apache VHOST) and bandwidth?
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Resource monitor and how to spot if you have disk I/O problems?
I have an application server which runs pervasive SQL and app using it.
Last weeks the users are complaining about poor performace of the app and I suspect disk I/O problems because CPU and RAM ...
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Why does tomcat's Bytes received under Server Status always report 0.00 MB?
When I access the Manager application for the http-8080 connector under Server Status I always get 0.00 MB under the Bytes received field even though the Bytes sent field is populated.
Anyone know ...
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Is there a way to use Performance Monitor on Windows Server 2008 R2 to send an email when free RAM is low?
Very rarely, our server runs low on RAM (and crashes) due to a certain rogue app that gobbles up all of the RAM. To guard against this happening again, is there any way to configure the built in ...
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Does 'top' show memory / CPU usage of parallel processes on cluster?
Recently inherited a neglected cluster: I'm trying to do some sanity checks on it. Running a benchmark on node X and then running 'top' shows high cpu usage from mpi processes (as expected), but on ...
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Which Website/User uses the Server resources on Windows Server 2008?
I have a shared webhosting server based on Windows 2008/IIS 7/Plesk 11.0 .Most of the time Server's CPU usage is over 80% and MS SQL Server process uses most of the CPU/RAM resources.
I want to know ...
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Linux Cloud Server resource monitoring/reporting [closed]
I'm looking for a software package or tool to monitor and report (historically) the CPU, RAM, and other load indicators.
I've got 5 server's behind a load-balancer and want to see how heavily they ...
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Complete server snapshot for troubleshooting performance?
From time to time, something happens to our website that makes it slow and unresponsive. Inevitably, this happens at like 3 AM, on a day when all the devs have gone to bed early.
Are there any good ...
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Monitor the resource usage by VMs in KVM
I am planing to write a resource monitoring code using some API for vms running on kvm. I have already tried libvirt but I have other issues with it(vms started with qemu-kvm are not visible). Is ...
