When the distributed monitoring system is deployed and running, gather the results and present them on wall-mounted displays, desktop browsers, mobile phones or tablets.

A server will experience problems when the processing demands hit a resource limit. Observing trends by measuring and comparing results periodically can alert you before that happens.

Scheduling a continuous monitoring process will detect problems at the earliest opportunity. If the diagnostic tools run often enough, they can forecast a server outage before a mission critical failure happens. Pre-emptive diagnosis and automatic corrections are a very good…

In the previous article, we set the scene for working with the Command Line Interface (CLI) on a UNIX system. Now we will explore some techniques for performing basic tests on our network infrastructure to check for potential problems.

As users working from home are no longer limited to their working environment by the concept of a physical location, and infrastructures are moving more and more to the cloud-hybrid approach, the outdated concept of perimeter security is moving aside…