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How To Use Open Monitoring Distribution with Check_MK on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Open Monitoring Distribution with Check_MK on Ubuntu 14.04

Open Monitoring Distribution (OMD) is a self-contained bundle that includes Nagios together with add-ons for gathering, monitoring, and graphing data. It comes bundled with Check_MK Multisite, a comprehensive tool that addresses many of Nagios’s shortcomings. It provides a web interface for easy administration and configuration, a user-friendly dashboard, a robust notification system, and easy-to-install monitoring agents for many Linux distributions.

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How To Send E-Mail Alerts on a CentOS VPS for System Monitoring — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Send E-Mail Alerts on a CentOS VPS for System Monitoring

In this article, we learn how to simply send e-mail alerts on a VPS and talk about various triggers that can be set to establish better overall security and to maintain a smooth running system. We go through the basics of e-mail, the necessary applications, along with examples of various e-mail alert triggers.

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How To Set Up a Help Desk System with OTRS on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Help Desk System with OTRS on CentOS 7

OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System. It provides a single point of contact for users, customers, IT personnel, IT services, and any external organizations. The program is written in Perl, supports a variety of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc), and can integrate with LDAP directories.

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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on CentOS 7

Metricbeat, the replacement for Topbeat, is a lightweight data shipper that collects CPU and memory statistics from a server and sends the data directly to your Elasticsearch deployment. In this tutorial, you will use Metricbeat to forward local system metrics like CPU/memory/disk usage and network utilization from a CentOS 7 server to another server of the same kind with the Elastic Stack installed.

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How To Migrate from FirewallD to Iptables on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Migrate from FirewallD to Iptables on CentOS 7

Like most other Linux distributions, CentOS 7 uses the netfilter framework inside the Linux kernel in order to access packets that flow through the network stack. This provides the necessary interface to inspect and manipulate packets in order to implement a firewall…

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How To Install Ruby on Rails on CentOS 6 with RVM — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Ruby on Rails on CentOS 6 with RVM

This tutorial explains how to install RVM (Ruby Version Manager), and then how to install ruby, how to install ruby gems, and how to install rails on Centos 6. RVM is a program that lets you use several versions of Ruby on one server and easily switch between them.

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