Continuous collection and analysis of some type of data is termed monitoring. For example, logging the total free space on a disk. A common administration and troubleshooting tool.
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How do you monitor I/O on individual devices in windows?
Can anyone tell me if there's a handy little utility out there that will monitor and display the I/O charts for individual drives on windows?
On linux Gkrellm is great for this.
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Granular control of the flow of data into and out of all devices on a home network to an ISP enforcing bandwidth limits
Internet service providers are gradually chipping away at net neutrality and imposing bandwidth limits. Most users will need to trust their ISP to report accurate bandwidth consumption rates, and ...
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Monitoring Clients Screen on wireless network on win7
I'm already using "Netsupport Manager" to access and monitor my clients (about 12 windows 7 machines) , when i connect to a client using netsupport manager it change windows 7 theme to "Windows Seven ...
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Windows software to show computer's energy usage or battery discharge rate
Is there any software for Windows 7 which can show a computer's energy usage in real-time? I am currently using Battery Bar, which gives an estimated discharge rate, but this is essentially an average ...
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Software that shows network activity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC - what should I use?
I am looking for a software that monitors, shows and (hopefully) logs network activity like ...
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How is “% committed bytes in use” in Perfmon calculated?
I'm trying to track down a memory leak on a Windows 7 Embedded Panel PC. Using Perfmon I can see that the "% committed bytes in use" grows steadily at a rate of 0.77% per hour when the app in ...
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Can instant messengers conversations be monitored?
on the ISP level, how can someone monitor messenger talks? isn't the p2p architecture immune to such surveillance? and how do different instant messaging clients compare in that sense?
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App like NetLimiter Monitor for OS X?
What app or apps replicate the functionality of NetLimiter Monitor
near realtime per-process and total bandwidth monitoring
data usage record
on OS X?
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Task Manager, Process Explorer, or similar tool: monitoring and managing CLR threads
Is there a tool out there that allows to see managed threads as they are running in CLR? Ideally, I would like to see CPU load, state, managed name, and managed id, hopefully even if the thread ...
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Monitor/Prevent copying files from a computer
I am giving remote desktop access to my computer to someone to get some work done. I want them NOT to copy any files out of my computer. Is there any software to monitor or prevent copying?
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How can I check if any of my Firefox extensions or plugins are using the internet?
Is there a way to monitor if Firefox extensions or plugins are using the internet?
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How do I monitor Internet download volume to my LAN
I have a satellite-connected modem for internet access: a (wifi+wire) router is connected to this, and provides access to a LAN with several Macs, 2 windows boxes, and an Ubuntu machine. Most ...
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How can I monitor Apache in real time?
How can I monitor Apache and get information about users who are connected to Apache? There's a server in my office. I want to know how many people in the office are connected to the it, using my web ...
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Monitor hard drive changes to files
Several months ago I saw someone using an application that showed him files on the computer being modified in real time.
Basically there was an application that wasn't working correctly, so he ...
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What is the Windows 7 alternative to Vista's 'Reliability and Performance Monitor' to monitor network traffic
Yesterday I was using my old Vista laptop and noticed it was rather easy to view which processes were using the network and how many bytes were send and received. Now when I open perfmon on Windows 7 ...
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Need advice on a monitoring, reminder and warning application
I am a developer that also has to monitor several things on different servers.
Such as:
1) Did all of the MS SQL databases backup last night?
2) Did all of the MySQL databases backup last night?
3) ...
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Find bandwidth used by process
Something is using a lot of bandwidth according to iStat menu. But I can't figure out what's doing it. lsof -i only shows what's connected but not how much bandwidth is being used
Please do no link ...
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How to monitor / sniff localhost SVN protocol messages
We have a local SVN client and server on localhost
I would like to "sniff" all SVN protocol messages sent to the SVN server
How can that be done?
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Windows app for monitoring CPU and GPU temperature and storing data to disk [duplicate]
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Recommend a free temperature-monitoring utility for cores + video card, on Vista?
My friend has a problem. His computer turns off itself time to time. We suspect ...
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How to monitor total data written to drive
Is there a tool for windows that totals up how much data has been written to the hard drive. I've tried resource monitor and it's not what I'm looking for.
Something along the lines of this in mac, ...
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Where can I find Windows proxy/filter software for a network (non-desktop) machine?
I'm looking for Windows proxy/filter software for a network (non-desktop) machine, preferably open source which is updated frequently.
So far I've only found http://www1.k9webprotection.com/, which ...
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Tool to monitor file read/write in unix
Is there any tool/command available in unix to monitor read/writes in a particular file.
I also want to collect how much data is being read each time the file is accessed.
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Is there a Firefox or Chrome plugin, or a standalone program, for monitoring site usage and search queries?
I'm running some research on how people search the web for specific types of information.
I'd like to be able to set them up with a laptop and browser and then record a history of what they search ...
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When sharing a folder in LAN, can I see what files are getting downloaded, and by whom?
When sharing a folder in LAN, can I see what files are getting downloaded, and by whom?
What software can I use for this? I use Windows XP.
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Monitor my internet browsing behaviour
I need a simple tool (preferably open source) to monitor my Internet browsing behaviour at home. Ideally, this tool should log the website accessed, and the amount of time spent on the site. Reporting ...
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What are some processor monitoring tools for Ubuntu
What are some good tools that I could use to monitor my processor? I know of some tools like SpeedFan and CoreTemp for Windows, but I need a Linux alternative.
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Is there a program to show programs loading during the boot process in real time?
There are any number of programs that will show me WHAT will run during the boot process for Windows XP. I've always been partial to Mike Lin's version but there are several others, some of which are ...
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Application Monitoring [closed]
I want to know is there a software that monitors any application from installation to running to uninstallation.
I would like to know what files does the application access/read/modify/delete, and ...
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Tracking web traffic on Ubuntu linux
One of my employees is spending a lot of time just browsing the web and talking on Google Talk. I'd like to get a quote of exactly how much time is spent doing these things. We want to have a lax ...
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Linux: Tool to monitor every process, execute-command, shortly, monitor what's happening at the moment [duplicate]
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How can I log all process launches in Linux
Hello,
due to a freeze problem of my Ubuntu 10.10 (it is not isolatable) I though about logging every executable of the ...
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How to monitor phone calls from computer?
Is it possible to monitor,record,block,etc phone calls of my home telephone from my computer? I really need this kind of thing because im getting calls from bad people
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What does Monit do when it says 'initializing'?
I'm using Monit for system monitoring. If i enable monitoring on a service it shows 'initializing' in the Status row. This can take a while. I wonder what Monit is doing in that time, since the used ...
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How does running really hot affect your laptop?
I have a Sony VPCF115FM iy (Q720). I know there was a bios update posted to keep the machine cooler.
Mine regularly runs between 49 C and 63-64 C.
I purchased it several months ago with the hope ...
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task manager for Internet usage, I need to block a software accessing a website/web server
I have a software that accesses a website, I want to monitor what website is it accessing and block that website. Is there a software similar to "windows task manager" that allows you to monitor ...
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Graphical broadband connectivity logger for Linux/Ubuntu?
Our home broadband (TWC/RoadRunner/San Diego) intermittently drops out for minutes at a time. In WinXP, I had a logger that would ping one or more sites (e.g. Yahoo.com), log the ping times, and ...
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How to see what data a windows application send through my network? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Monitor all and any internet traffic from my home PC - what should I use?
I want to see what a application send to network and if is possible to edit or stop them. ...
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Process Watcher For Mac
I'm looking for something that I'm sure is out there, but I can't find it.
I have a long running program (Matlab simulation) that runs for 24 hours or more on the Mac in my office. Occasionally the ...
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vmstat shows incorrect processor idle time
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OS: IBM AIX
#oslevel
5.3.0.0
lparstat
#lparstat
System configuration: type=Shared mode=Uncapped smt=On lcpu=12 mem=12288 psize=16 ent=3.00
%user %sys %wait %idle physc %entc ...
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How can I find out what's the bottleneck slowing down a particular process / the entire system?
Given a specific running process, is there a way to find out what hardware element is currently the bottleneck for its operation? In other words, is its current computation CPU-bound, GPU-bound, ...
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Logging system state
My friend's laptop has a tendency to turn itself off every once in a while. I don't have access to it, but I would like to install a utility that constantly monitors its state and logs it somewhere, ...
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Is there a Linux desktop key logger application that can monitor how long I spend on websites and desktop applications?
I am looking for a key logger application monitoring application that can tell me:
How long I have spent using a desktop
application
How long I have spent on each website
I visit via my browsers
...
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Automated Video Encoding Solution
The Problem
I have around 3000+ videos growing daily. Each of these videos need to be converted to H.264, with 2 audio tracks, straight through and Stereo in an M4V container. I currently use a .Net ...
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How to monitor what someone else is doing while using your internet connection
I gave my network security password to my neighbor so she could get online. How can I tell what she has been doing online or on my computer?
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Ubuntu: tool for displaying disk activity in general and by process
My Ubuntu system is occasionally becoming very sluggish. I'm running many things simultaneously and it's very difficult to tell which program is the culprit.
I suspect that the sluggishness is due to ...
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Program to restart a process when files in a directory change (Windows)
I'm looking for a Windows program that will kill and restart a process when a change is made to some files in a directory.
Does anyone know of one?
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Simple way to monitor and analyze home network traffic, via proxy?
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I'm looking for a way to create a simple list/log/database of the URLs my home computers have accessed. This list should show Domains, Urls, Timestamps, bytes sent/rec'd and that's about it.
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Monitor a java file for execution
I have a .jar file that I would like to check if it gets called/executed. The program that is supposed to access it is visual studio post build events, but I have no idea if it gets executed.
My OS ...
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RAID monitoring software
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit from a 2 disk RAID1 volume. I'm using the Intel RAID controller built into my motherboard.
I'd like to have some sort of early warning if one of the drives ...
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How to monitor Windows XP disk I/O?
My Windows environment (main development machine) is running a bit slow with operations envolving hard disk. As an indication, the HD light is constantly flashing and e.g. saving and loading big files ...
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Alternative to 'System Explorer'
OS: WinXP
I am used to use System Explorer 1.5 to monitor my PC. It provides:
A CPU usage icon on task tray.
A performance graph including CPU/MEM/Swap/Pages faulted/IO reads writes, also shows the ...
