Why Monitor?
A good question to get started with. Monitoring Your Server(s) and Infrastructure is one of the most fundamental and basic management frameworks that should be in place for anyone who owns or controls...
View ArticleWhat to Monitor on your Web Hosting Server
After having discussed why we should monitor our IT infrastructure, the next logical step is to decide what we should monitor. As a case in point, we will consider a Web Hosting server as the box we...
View ArticleTypes of Monitoring
Lets face it, for the sysadmin, there are a heap of tools that they can use to check on the status of a server. What we are going to do is to take a look a some very basic system-based … Continue...
View ArticleEvolution of Monitoring
What I am going to discuss today is what I will refer to as the Evolution of monitoring. All of these methods are used to monitor both the hardware and software that make up any given system or...
View ArticleOther Sysadmin Tools
Every Sysadmin has their set of favourite tools to monitor and manage their Servers, so today, I thought I would share another couple of mine. Years ago, when Running a VPS came across vpsinfo – a nice...
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