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10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass

10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass
By Ben Dowling When you have a website or a network, it’s helpful to be aware of any issues as soon as they occur. There are open source and freeware server/network monitoring tools that will supervise your infrastructure for any issues that may arise. These tools are meant to aid you in avoiding being taken offline and evaluating if your resource needs has outgrown your infrastructure. In this article, we review our top 10 server/network monitoring tools. 1. Monit not only monitors your server, but also attempts to remedy problems by taking predefined actions for certain situations. If you have more than one server that you need to monitor, then you can use M/Monit– an extended version of Monit that provides a simple way to monitor multiple machines. There’s also an iPhone app available for M/Monit to help you conveniently check on your network without lugging around a laptop around. 2. When you have a cluster of machines, it’s difficult to see how the whole cluster is doing all at once.

GMail POP3 Checker for Greasemonkey and Chrome (Automatically!) | Daniel Slaughter GMail POP3 Checker for Greasemonkey and Chrome (Automatically!) Introduction I realize this script does not exist anywhere on the internet, and since I wrote this a while back and have been happily using it for quite some time I’ve decided to make it public. It’s quite a simple script. Donate Did this script change your life? Download Click here to download this fancy script! If you’re feeling generous and appreciate the work I’ve done, and will continue to do, please consider donating (see above). Please let me know if you have any other feedback pertaining to this script that may come in handy for future releases. Installation Directions FAQs When I view the Settings/Accounts page and click the “POP3″ link it doesn’t tell me it’s checking my mail, why? Change Log October 3, 2013 Quick update to account for the new Gmail layout without the black-bar. April 12, 2013 Applied a patch that was causing Chrome version 27.X+ to not load the script correctly. February 15, 2012 February 12, 2012 Sorry!

Syncless Follow some of us on Twitter: @Syncless @Wysie_Soh @kelltainer @ZwodahS Update May 22, 2010: For those who have tested the network drive, please post in the discussion group and let us know =). Syncless 2.1 is up. added Minimize On startup options. Network Drive For those having problem regarding network drive, try mapping the network drive to a drive letter and set the respective permission. "Syncless is a work of beauty combined with superb functionality. "You won't find a shortage of file syncing applications, but Syncless is the first we've reviewed that supports tag-based synchronization. "Overall we liked the concept of tags for file sync and Syncless proved to be a really useful application." - Life Rocks 2.0 Syncless comes under international spotlight - Baixa.br Ferra.ru Why Tagging? Why Syncless? What makes Syncless so unique is the way synchronization is performed. The concept of tagging has been applied by notable applications in various interesting ways. Why Another Sync Tool?

10 Cool Ways to Use Nmap Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. In addition to my list you can also check out this Comprehensive Guide to Nmap here and of course the man pages Here are some really cool scanning techniques using Nmap 1) Get info about remote host ports and OS detection nmap -sS -P0 -sV -O <target> Where < target > may be a single IP, a hostname or a subnet -sS TCP SYN scanning (also known as half-open, or stealth scanning) -P0 option allows you to switch off ICMP pings. -sV option enables version detection -O flag attempt to identify the remote operating system Other option: -A option enables both OS fingerprinting and version detection -v use -v twice for more verbosity. nmap -sS -P0 -A -v < target > 2) Get list of servers with a specific port open

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USB Flash | VCritical You are currently browsing articles tagged USB flash. VMware ESXi 5 Scripted Install to USB Flash VMware vSphere 5 adds the ability to perform a scripted installation of VMware ESXi 5 to a USB flash drive or SD card. Hyper-V? VMware ESXi 4: SD Flash in BL460c G6 HP Blades incorporate an SD slot that can be used to easily deploy VMware ESXi from flash. The VMware ESXi 4 64MB Hypervisor Challenge While completely unsupported, it is possible to build a small 64MB flash drive that will boot and run VMware ESXi 4. If VMware ESXi 4 is so small, why is it so big? Although VMware ESXi 4 requires a 1GB flash device to install, the core hypervisor functionality is fully contained in less than 60MB. A very flashy hypervisor: Hyper-V Server R2 If your server OEM supports it, you might be able to get the free Hyper-V Server R2 to boot from a flash drive someday. Create ESXi 4 USB flash drives with Workstation

Beginner's Guide to Nmap Ever wondered how attackers know what ports are open on a system? Or how to find out what services a computer is running without just asking the site admin? You can do all this and more with a handy little tool called Nmap. What is Nmap? It's famous, too. In this tutorial, I'll cover some of the basics of using Nmap and provide some examples you can use quickly. Getting Nmap and Basic Use You'll find Nmap packaged for most major Linux distros. The basic syntax for Nmap is Nmap Scan Type Options target. nmap -O target.host.com Note that Nmap requires root privileges to run this type of scan. Starting Nmap 5.21 ( ) at 2010-02-27 23:52 EST Nmap scan report for 10.0.0.1 Host is up (0.0015s latency). As you can see, Nmap provides a lot of data. Here's the result of another scan, against a desktop machine running Ubuntu 9.10: Starting Nmap 5.21 ( ) at 2010-02-28 00:00 EST Nmap scan report for 10.0.0.6 Host is up (0.0039s latency). Practice Hosts Multiple Hosts Zenmap

PowerShell Robocopy script with e-mail notification » Michel Stevelmans I wrote this PowerShell script to synchronize two folders with robocopy (each located on another physical hard disk) so I have a backup in case one hard disk fails. The script will send the robocopy output log file as an attachment to the specified e-mail address. # PowerShell Robocopy script with e-mail notification # Created by Michel Stevelmans - # Change these values $SourceFolder = "C:\SourceFolder" $DestinationFolder = "C:\DestinationFolder" $Logfile = "C:\Robocopy.log" $EmailFrom = "michel.stevelmans@domain.com" $EmailTo = "michel.stevelmans@domain.com" $EmailBody = "Robocopy completed successfully. If you want to use gmail, you have to use a different approach because gmail requires authentication, a different port and SSL. The script below will allow you to let PowerShell use gmail to send the e-mail notification.

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BlueStacks Lets You Run Android Apps on Windows 7 Updated: 12/16/2013 Home » Tools » BlueStacks Lets You Run Android Apps… This is so cool. A virtualization solution that lets you run Android apps fluidly on Windows 7 systems, or even Windows 8. If you are currently looking for a way to port Android apps on Windows system, looking no farther, this App from BlueStacks is all you need. The BlueStacks App Player runs like a desktop widget at the top right corner of your desktop after installed. It works on Windows 7 machine and it’s free. Isn’t it cool?

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