Category Archives: Unix

Working with KSH

Posted on November 16, 2011 by SoCRaT

Here are the shortcuts that were of utmost importance to get me productive with KSH: “stty erase ^?” to remove the ‘^?’ symbol when the backspace key is pressed. “Ctrl-p” shows the previous command that you typed, pressing several time … 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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