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Nagios: System and Network Monitoring Book

October 18, 2008in Book Review, Linux, Monitoring, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Suse Linux, Sys admin, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX, Windows server last updated October 18, 2008

The convenience and reliability that monitoring programs offer system administrators is astounding. Whether at home, commuting, or on vacation, admins can continuously monitor their networks, learning of issues long before they become catastrophes.

Nagios, the most popular open source solution for system and network monitoring, is extremely robust, but it’s also intensely complex.

RedHat Bought Qumranet's Virtualization including its KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine)

September 9, 2008in News, RedHat/Fedora Linux last updated September 9, 2008

Red Hat paid approximately $107 million in cash for Qumranet, a privately held company. Now, Red Hat positioned to deliver comprehensive, reliable and open virtualization to Linux and Windows servers and desktops.

Windows PowerShell vs UNIX BASH Shell

July 16, 2008in Linux, programming, Shell scripting, UNIX, Windows server, windows vista last updated July 16, 2008

Shell scripting is fun. It is useful to create nice (perhaps ugly) things (read as solutions) in shell scripting. Now Windows got Powershell. But how does PowerShell measure up to traditional shells like Bash?

Linux Remote Desktop For Controlling Windows XP / Vista / Server 2003 ( rdesktop )

January 7, 2006in Linux, Windows last updated January 7, 2006

I am responsible for couple of MS-Windows servers and Windows XP/Vista/7 workstations too. When I work from home, I need a way to get into Windows XP/2000/Vista/2003/2008/7/Vista operating systems for work.