I'm looking for a tool to monitor my servers, Pandora FMS (free version) seems to be good for my needs, but I want to be sure about something;
- is it possible to monitor Esxi virtual machines from the free version or not ?
Yes, you can use local or remote monitoring to gather data from your virtual machine in a OS level
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We would like to install Cytoscape on a server (Windows or Linux) and allow multiple users to connect simultaneously using a client software. Is this possible, and if so, what are requirements in regards to the server and the client software?
Certainly that's possible. There aren't any particular requirements, but keep in mind that for large networks, Cytoscape likes lots of memory. At any rate, we use X2Go on our Linux servers and it works really well for Cytoscape. Keep in mind, however, that a CytoscapeConfiguration directory will be created in each user's home and that apps and configuration information will be stored there.
everyone, I am trying to monitor an application for transactions on Zabbix, I have already installed the agent on the windows server where the application is running on. However, I only get stats such as CPU, disk space, networks etc. I am trying to monitor transactions and interfaces. How do I go about?
I would consider using user parameters if you want pure zabbix solution. Have your application transactions output status, and capture that. This approach can be cumbersome.
If you are not looking for pure zabbix solution I would look at a solution that supports transactional monitoring, something like http://wdt.io .
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I have two workstations and some muötimedia devices with an internet connection at home. I switched my ISPs contract since years and YEA they track my usage and will feed me with just 2000 Mbit's if I use to much of my bandwidth
How to track this when there is not only a computer where you can put some software on easily but some hardware with internet connections to that serves netflix for example?
What is the best way to track my bandwidth usage to avoid to be throttled by my ISP and have the chance to stop using the internet before we have used 300 GB
Since you can't rely on software solution running on all devices at your LAN, i would suggest tracking the WAN port on your router.
Most routers today have network statistics information that is accessible using the router's web administration interface.
You can track your current bandwidth usage from there.
If your router has support for SNMP, you can setup alerts to be sent to one of your devices for monitoring.
I'm using Delphi to develop real-time control software and over the last couple of years I have done some work running older Windows installations under Microsoft's VirtualPC and it works fine for 'pure software' development (i.e no or limited access to the outside world). Such tools seem able to work with network connections but I have to maintain software which performs I/O via the parallel port (via a device driver). We also use USB I/O. In the past I've liked Microsoft's virtual tools because it takes time to install a new operating system and then (in my case) install Delphi and a load of libraries and components to provide development support. In these circumstances I've not been too bothered by my lack of access to the low-level I/O ports.
I want to up my game and I'm happy to pay for a good virtualisation tool IF I can have access from it to the outside world, i.e I want to be able to configure it to allow access to my machine's parallel port and com ports in the same way as if it was running natively. This access has to be able to expose the parallel port in register terms, i.e to 'see' the port at address $03f8 for example and to support I/O operations of those registers (via the appropriate kernel access) as my Windows 7 64-bit installation is able to do.
I see that there are a number of virtualisation solution out there now but it's quite hard to acertain the capability of each at such a low level. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge in this area?
The VMware products would be suited best for this. You can add virtual serial and parallel ports and forward them to a physical port on the host, or even to a file or a named pipe.
You can also connect any USB device that is connected to the host machine.
This works with VMware Workstation, but might even work with the free VMware player too.
I need to check the disk space in a number of remote systems (Windows 2000) and have to sent a mail if the space is below a particular level. How can this be automated? What script can be used?
One option would be a system monitoring tool, such as Nagios.
Basically, what this will do is continually interrogate your systems, and alert you to anything you set it to (disk-space, CPU usage, page-faults, etc.). As a bonus you get a lovely web-based interface which lets you see your system status at a glance.
Note that you will need to enable remote WMI querying on each target system, or install an "agent" on each system.