Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Monitor CPU, Memory and Network on AIX

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

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 Ahmed Tawfik

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 Ahmed Tawfik

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 Ahmed Tawfik

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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Install NFS Client on Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Ahmed Tawfik

Steps: 1. Launch the “Server Manager”   2. Click Role, Click “Add Roles” in the right panel   3. Click Next, Select the checkbox of “File Services”, Click Next.   4. When the “Select Role Services” appears, select the checkbox … Continue reading →

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