Things You May or May Not Know About Linux “find” Command – part III
In the third part of our closer encounter with the find command [(for previous posts, see Part I and Part II] we are going to look into searching for files based on their size, type, owner and...
View ArticleMonitis-Top… an open-source command-line interface for Monitis Agents and...
In this article we’ll discuss creating a command line interface to query the Monitis Agents and Monitors you have activated for your systems. We’ll provide the source code for the utility in VBScript...
View ArticleMonitis-Top… Adding Support for FullPage Monitors and Code Optimizations
So far we’ve added support for Internal and External Monitors in Monitis-Top. Now let’s add functionality to support querying the FullPage Monitors. We also made some changes to optimize the source...
View ArticleMonitis-Top Command Line Tool in C#
In previous articles we introduced the command-line utility “Monitis-Top”, written in VBScript. Monitis Top is a tool that can be used to query your active monitors from the command-line. We promised...
View ArticleM3 code refactor & DBI support
Pluggable M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) Framework Who needs an introduction about M3? – Perhaps no one! After gaining some reputation with M3, providing extra-easy integration of any monitor into...
View ArticleM3 Timers – improved server monitoring
Unleashing the power of M3 & timers During the lifespan of M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) there has always been something lacking – timers. M3 execution procedure was outlined in this previous...
View ArticlePostgreSQL monitoring with Monitis
Generic server monitoring with Monitis & M3 Had I been told to monitor a cat chasing a mouse with Monitis, my answer would have been – “Yes, it’s probably possible”. With the not-so-recent addition...
View ArticleBandwidth monitoring with ntop & Monitis
ntop bandwidth monitor ntop is a very simple yet powerful bandwidth monitor which outputs various statistics counters in RRD. RRD – Round Robin Database – is a very handy framework for saving server...
View ArticleMonitis Monitor Manager Raw Commands Explained
Incentive for raw commands M3 (or its newer version which you should be using – M3v3) can do pretty much. However it can’t do anything. M3 is good at timing execution of commands, apply simple parsing...
View ArticleMonitoring apache & nginx using Monitis and M3
Apache and Nginx web servers both expose a very nice interface for polling the web server status via HTTP, providing you with useful counters for statistics and up-time. Just to give you an idea,...
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