Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

Compact Monitoring System-ZABBIX

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Monitoring a server is an essential process to keep it healthy. Managing logs and status of the services of your servers in a human readable and viewable form is now very easy and handy. ZABBIX is an open source compact and complete monitoring system. I can comfortably call it ...

Experience virtualization with VM-Knoppix

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Virtualization means running multiple Operating system at the same time, It can be done at server scale and also on the desktop level. Here we are going to discuss briefly about the desktop virtualization with VM-KNOPPIX. Live CD. Virtualization provides you low infrastructure cost because single Operating system can ...

Monitoring HPC

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

What is HPC??? HPC stands for high performance computing and to get most efficient result set for solving engineering tasks, HPC is used. HPC term is normally used to represent teraflop 10 ^12 (10 power 12) and Super computer also operate at this level of speed. These types of deployment ...

.Exe files on Linux

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Life becomes easy for windows users and administrator because their favorite software’s are now available on linux. As a Linux System Administrator, if you are running both Linux and windows network in parallel, you need to experience some windows softwares for testing purpose. It is very hard to switch ...

Opensource Router-XORP

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Another leap by opensource community for deploying routable  network. My old post about Mikrotik router is very similar with this but the big difference between mikrotik and xorp is XORP (eXtensible open source router) is completely free…. No licence is required for it. Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernel and BSD ...

Installing Softwares on Linux

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Downloading & Installing packages in Linux: This small and basic tutorial helps you in downloading & installing different available packages in linux. Downloading packages is not a big deal, few commands and you can get through with your basic assignments.