Archive for the ‘Softwares’ 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 ...

Get The Details Of Your Machine Chipset

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Many times a situation arises to you that you need to identify the Chipset details of your machine, Whether it may be Intel or AMD board etc.. If you came to know the board brand then what type of chipset it is, what is the cache size, what is RAM ...

.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 ...

Database Modeling with Ease

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Almost every product requires optimized design and structure of a database. Before database is put into production, System database modeling should be done with the most efficient tool which provides System Reverse Engineering, forward engineering, normalization and demoralization, industry standard notation for representing entities, key and non key attributes, writing ...

Sniffing Your Network Packets Is Fun

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Who don’t want to be an efficient Network professional,  auditing a network makes you a diligent network solution provider. So for you Commview is product for monitoring network and analyzing your network traffic. It provides the detailed traffic stats like ip address, port number, session information, and packets detailed ...

Email with database-DBMail

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Who doesn’t want to have a fast and reliable solution for an emails delivery? Now another refreshing product in open source development is DBMail. Currently it is supporting sqlLite, postgre, mysql. Its name is suggesting that mail contents including attachments are stored in database which is highly scalable and flexible. ...

Mikrotik-Low cost router

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

We have heard so much about cisco routers and catalysts and why not, because cisco has so much variations and provide reliable products that why highly penetrated in a IT industry, but one thing about cisco is it cost which is unbearable for a small and medium enterprise (SME) so ...