The important aspect of graphing is that it enables a busy administrator to evaluate a server visually, often making more sense than strings of data. NagiosGrapher is a tool that you can use with Nagios to graph information that you want to evaluate as an administrator. This tutorial will show you how to install NagiosGrapher in preparation for the data to be graphed.
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NagiosGrapher on CentOS
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System security? What about your DATA!
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It is often said that Linux is more secure than Windows, and for enterprise workloads this tends to be very true. Desktop Linux is a completely different use case, and unfortunately security configuration is sadly way behind (read: non-existent).
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KVM, QEMU, and kernel project management
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Both the code and its development model are seen as conforming much more closely to the Linux way of doing things than the alternatives; KVM is expected to be the long-term virtualization solution for Linux. So, one might well wonder, why has KVM been the topic of one of the more massive and less pleasant linux-kernel discussions in some time?
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Secure Your Server with Denyhosts
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DenyHosts is a tool i use to secure my SSH server from these type of people. Written in python, this tool serves as a very active security guard and helps me to keep my system safe from lots of prying eyes.
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Coming Soon: X Server 1.8
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According to the release plans, the release of X Server 1.8 should take place, and while in reality it will likely not be released today, its release is coming soon. When this release does arrive, it will add a new set of features to the X.Org stack and a number of other minor improvements and bug-fixes.
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Buck-security - Security scanner for Ubuntu Servers
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Buck-Security is a security scanner for Debian and Ubuntu Linux. It helps you to harden your system by running some important security checks. For example, it finds world-writable files and directories, setuid and setgid programs, superuser accounts, and installed attack tool packages.
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Why text files, specifically? Well, if you're doing much work at the shell on Linux, you'll start encountering a lot of text or files that can behave like text. Log files, configuration files and output from many commands can all be manipulated with the GNU textutils.
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Generic Security Service Library (GSSLib) 1.0.0 release
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GSSLib is an implementation of the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) in GNU project and licensed under GPLv3. GSS-API is used by network servers to provide security services, for example, GSS can be used to authenticate a client against SMTP or IMAP servers.
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Red Hat moves into desktop virtualization
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Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday.
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NVIDIA dropping support for new GPUs in the nv driver
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NVIDIA has announced that it is dropping support for new GPUs, such as the forthcoming Fermi, from it's open source xf86-video-nv driver for X11
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Debianpackagemaker - A simple and straight forward ubuntu package maker
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DebianPackageMaker is a simple user interface/tool to make a debian package easier and straightforward to use and deploy your linux application to any debian based distro.
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MongoDB 1.4 "Ready for Production"
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The MongoDB developers say that the latest release of their open source, scalable, document oriented database is ready for production use
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Replace a failed drive in Linux RAID
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A few weeks ago I had the distinct displeasure of waking up to a series of emails indicating that a series of RAID arrays on a remote system had degraded. The remote system was still running, but one of the hard drives was pretty much dead.
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New Python versions released
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The Python developers have released two new version of the programming language. Versions 2.6.5 and 3.1.2 are both new maintenance releases
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BIND 10: The First Year
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We have nearly reached the end of the first year of the BIND 10 project. To celebrate this, we are releasing the first version of BIND 10.
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