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…

Here we look from the state of the art in microphones, to what the future may bring with the enticing theoretical potential of microphone arrays built using MEMS technology.

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.