Monthly Archives: June 2011

How to enable Android Market on Samsung Galaxy Mobiles

Posted on June 28, 2011 by SoCRaT

Android market seems to be disabled by default on Samsung Galaxy mobile phones in the Middle East, and Samsung is using their marketplace instead, which is totally ridiculous. To enable the Android market (Tested successfully on Samsung Galaxy S9000) BACKUP … Continue reading →

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Monitor CPU, Memory and Network on AIX

Posted on June 17, 2011 by SoCRaT

Very good two commands to monitor CPU, Memory and Network on AIX: netstat and vmstat e.g. “netstat 5”, views the network activity, reports every 5 seconds, change 5 to 10 if you want every 10 seconds and so on. e.g. … Continue reading →

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Ganglia Daemons Enable Debugging Mode

Posted on June 16, 2011 by SoCRaT

Just run “gmetad” or “gmond” with the “-d debugging_level” where debugging level is from 1 to 9, this will run it in the foreground and will show very useful information that will help you in debugging, pressing Ctrl+C will kill … Continue reading →

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Configure Ganglia Data Monitoring Agent (gmond) to send data to multiple Data Collection Agents (gmetad)

Posted on June 16, 2011 by SoCRaT

Edit the “/etc/gmond.conf” file, and just copy the udp_send_channel section, one copy for every host, e.g. udp_send_channel { host = 10.11.x.x port = 8649 ttl = 1 } udp_send_channel { host = 10.11.x.y port = 8649 ttl = 1 } … Continue reading →

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Installing a Text-based Browser on AIX (Lynx)

Posted on June 14, 2011 by SoCRaT

If you want a very simple text-based web browser in order to test responses on an AIX server and don’t want to waste time and bandwidth using Firefox – if it exists – and an X-session, use “Lynx”, Here are … Continue reading →

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