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Monitoring with Monitis and collectd
As a system administrator, you know that one of the key components of the job is understanding, in minute detail, the performance characteristics and capacity of your systems. While there exists an...
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Bandwidth 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...
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Low overhead and reliable CPU/memory monitoring using Monitis Custom Monitors
M3 – The Custom Monitors Swiss Tool M3 has been around for a while, receiving numerous improvements on the way. We can gladly announce it as a mature infrastructure now for server monitoring, together...
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Nine steps to secure your IIS7 server
In this article we will focus on some tips you can use in your environment to secure IIS7 servers and the application they’re hosting. 1. The first step you need to take when securing your web server...
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Nine Steps to Secure your Exchange Server
In this article we will list some steps you can take to make sure your Exchange Server is running as securely as possible. 1. Harden the OS We can’t stress enough how important it is to harden the...
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Monitis and M3 at Velocity 2012
Velocity 2012 Last week I was honored to be invited to the famous Velocity 2012 conference in Santa Clara California, hosted by O’Reilly. Monitis was one of the silver sponsors. It was a great...
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Windows Server 2012 – New Advanced Features
In this article I would like to share the new things in Windows Server 2012 that grabbed my particular attention. It’s not a full list of the new features, which you can find on the Microsoft official...
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Windows Server 2012 : Towards More Mobility
In our previous article, Windows Server 2012 – New Advanced Features, we introduced some of the many new features that Windows Server 2012 provides to its clients. In this article we will focus on...
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Make Alerting Apps Work for You
Some years back, I worked as the CTO. During my tenure, I had a head of IT support reporting to me. He did his job quite well and had a commendable sense of duty and responsibility, and I will...
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How C# IEnumerable Can Kill Your Site’s Performance
When people come up to speed in C#, collection types present options. And, sometimes, these options confuse. Should you use C# IEnumerable, IList, or ICollection? And what’s an...
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