Questions tagged [monitoring]
For questions about monitoring computer activity. Questions about recording external human activity, use a tag such as [time-management]
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How can I see the current bandwidth use of the dedicated graphics memory?
Can I calculate it using the values I see on gpu-z? can it actually be calculated or monitored?
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How can I constantly monitor if my server has network traffic?
I run a server on my laptop (with Windows 7) to share some data with remote users. I do not want to shut down the laptop while others are downloading – therefore, I constantly need to monitor my ...
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GUI tool for presenting connectivity status on a firewalled network with port blocks etc
The Israeli railway company has recently started a project of wireless LAN availability on its lines. Now, it's all in the flakey stages, sometimes things are up and sometimes they aren't; sometimes ...
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Is this a bug in top?
This command line:
top -l 3 -n 10 -o "vprvt"
For some reason there are two processes that consistently creep up in the second sample's output regardless of their actual VPRVT size, and they do not ...
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Tracking daily hard drive usage
Is there a way I can track all hard drive usage (applications, OS processes, page files, and indexes)? I would want the statistics broken down per drive and into read and writes. I am running Windows ...
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Create an RSS feed for any webpage, monitor changes and send results by email?
Do you know a Windows 7 software (not an online service like yahoo pipes. As if, for instance, such company goes bankrupt I lose everything!) than can create an RSS feed for any webpage ? Here is what ...
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Splitting an internet connection between multiple separate subnetworks
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I have an internet connection that I want to split between four separate networks. My requirements are:
I need to be able to monitor the amount of bandwidth and data being used by each ...
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How to calculate CPU % based on raw CPU ticks in SNMP
According to http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/mibs/ucdavis.html#scalar_notcurrent ssCpuUser, ssCpuSystem, ssCpuIdle, etc are deprecated in favor of the raw variants (ssCpuRawUser, etc).
The ...
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list of all web applications installed on server?
I have a home sever running a lot of different purposes, among other stuff it runs apache, mysql and torrent client. Some of these software is accessible through the web interface, but there is no ...
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add blinking network-monitor icon in GNOME / XFCE
I'd like to see if i have incomming or outgoing traffic via a little blinking network-monitor icon in my system tray, as it was usual for years within Windows XP, or Android nowadays.
I want to see ...
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Can I route all network connections through a virtual machine on macosx?
So far I've experienced with proxy software to monitor http connections on my machine, but I want to know about every little detail. I thought I could install a virtual machine and force macosx to ...
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Is there a open source monitoring package that monitors logs for specific string patterns?
In our current system, we are not effectively monitoring the logs for errors as most of the errors are not serious enough. I want to basically warn users on the important errors. I cannot touch the ...
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vmstat shows incorrect processor idle time
To begin with
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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Network / Internet diagnostic tool to locate an error?
I’m facing some difficulties with the Internet / network at my work and I have trouble locating the precise error and when and how it occurs. The problem is that the client machines in the house ...
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Looking for something to monitor an Internet Shared Connection in Windows XP
If someone knows any software with these features:
Works from the tray area
Very lightweight
Works also in Windows XP (preferably workstation, nothing serverish required)
Can show a bandwidth usage ...
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SNMP: How to monitor devices that do not have static IP adress with Zabbix
I have some equipments in my LAN but the way things are working; I cannot set statics IPs for them, they really need to have DHCP enabled.
I am using Zabbix, and for host configuration, the IP ...
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Collecting metrics on different frequency for Grafana/Prometheus Database exporter
I am trying to setup a Prometheus exporter for Oracle Database.
For Database monitoring, I do not want to collect all the metrics every time.
Rather, collect metrics on different frequency.
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For ...
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How to check static IP address using Prometheus & Blackbox exporter
I would like to check every 30s whether it is possible to connect to the static IP address 10.0.0.5 on port 80. Unfortunately I cannot find any valid example. I assume it should look something like ...
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Tracing a high CPU process
There have been a few times where a server spikes up to 100% CPU for a moment, during the spike the server becomes basically unusable.
I'm currently looking into solutions to hunt down the process ...
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How to monitor data usage on a network
I'm on a ship with about 20 crew, our current setup is Starlink to a router then daisy chained wired routers(static ip,no DCHP) on 5 decks below. All routers are Dlink DIR 828a1 and can only see ...
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Error trying to get disk space usage from discovered VMS using Zabbix
I am trying to create a trigger on a template called Template Virt VMware Guest in order to extract the % of free space of the VMWARE VM that has the template inherited.
What I did was:
Going to the ...
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Connect multiple hosts running promtail to loki running on a separate host
Hi all first time posting here.
I have 3 different servers. This is the setup I want to achieve:
Server1 (51.25.365.12): promtail
Server2 (51.25.78.215): promtail
Server3 (216.25.36.54): promtail, ...
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Unknown Source of MSIX-IRQ once every 2s
I have an Ubuntu PC with an Intel i210 NIC with a port named enp1s0. It has no IP address assigned. The port is connected to another port with an I210 on a similar Ubuntu PC and that port also has no ...
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Zabbix 6 agent: failed to initialize builtin counter
I am doing a zabbix 6 installation and configuration of a Windows machine, after installing and configuring the zabbix agent, everything seems to work fine. But after a few hours everything fails and ...
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How to calculate cpu usage in % with the raw CPU ticks in SNMP
I was wondering how to calculate the percentage of CPU usage using the raw values obtained via these oids:
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssCpuRawIdle.0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssCpuRawUser.0
UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssCpuRawSystem.0
I ...
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Possible to monitor LAN traffic (who is visiting what urls and for how long)
I am attempting to limit my children's internet/video viewing am aware of some paid options but for starters I am try to get an idea of what they are watching and for how long (I have my own biased ...
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Install Linux on Chromebook for wireless security testing?
I’m envisioning myself walking around my home with a small laptop in one hand, and a smartphone in the other hand. The laptop would have wireless security software (WireShark, maybe nzyme or similar) ...
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Monitoring Windows machines from Linux with winrm / CIM / WMI using active directory accounts
It's all in the title :)
I have to monitor windows clients/servers.
Currently I use relay windows servers to monitor the remote clients with powershell scripts.
I wish to change that and to use linux ...
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How to automatically set up a series of reminders whenever a new file is created in a folder?
I want to do that on a Win11 machine. Let's say folder A has sub-folders B, C... Whenever a new file of a .xyz extension is created in any of them (but not when modified), a series of 6 reminders is ...
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Simplify NETSTAT monitoring output
I'm monitoring suspicious incoming connections using
sudo watch -n 30 "netstat -antp"
which provides more information than I need, so based on the answer I found here,
I've tried to ...
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How to access a domain system, if system is using wifi
I have my own Windows Server 2012 R2 with Active Directory having 150+ users. Right now we are using Net Monitors for employee Pro to monitor our users,
My Question is if one my user's laptop is using ...
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Is there a way to capture just my main display
so I'm using this application called time clock wizard that takes screenshot of my desktop at different intervals for the client to see. I was just wondering if there was a way to somehow make it ...
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Configure OPNsense to restart itself after a crash
I run OPNsense as a home router system, along with a VPN that I frequently access while not at home.
Recently, while I was away, the system at some point became inaccessible from outside. When I ...
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Power shell script for Monitoring C-Drive
# find the path to the desktop folder:
$desktop = [Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop')
#specify the path to the folder you want to monitor:
$Path = $desktop
# specify which files you want to ...
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How to run a program with administrator privileges on user login under Windows 10 Pro?
I would like to run a task to monitor CPU temperature while I am logged into my regular working account, which does not have admin privileges. However, admin privileges are required to read the CPU ...
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What does Windows 10 Pro do behind my back?
I have a Dell notebook running Windows 10 Pro, up-to-date as of today May 10, 2021.
Starting 4-6 weeks ago, when I lock the screen and go away, this PC starts working. When I go back to work, I find ...
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Monitor process' file access by file and access speed
I have multiple disks in my system sometimes I have a heavy read usage on my root partition. I know that there are some processes reading a lot of data, but from all disks. How can I find out which ...
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Getting the macOS page line printed on the monitor as a light green shadow when using Split View
I use Split View a lot with my M1 MacBook Pro (A2338). I am starting to get (from time to time) a green mark of the page splitter marked on my monitor as a green line. It's super weird. I'd like to ...
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How to detect which process accesses a file?
I'm trying to reword this question: Is it possible to monitor which process accesses a given file/directory (on a Linux system)?
Background: on a regular basis I'm detecting file access to a certain ...
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Wireshark doesn't capture on interface wlan0mon
I am using Wireshark to scan for unwanted traffic in my home network. I enabled monitor mode for wlan0 using:
airmon-ng check kill
airmon-ng start wlan0
When I check iwconfig I can see the wlan0mon ...
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Can I limit the scope of ntop to only monitor a specific connection?
I need to be able to track client data usage between their VM and an S3 compatible object storage bucket (accessed via https). I've installed ntopng community edition on the VM and right now it's ...
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How to determine the duration for which a file was accessed/modified a program?
I would like to measure the speed of encryption performed by a utility on a Windows 10 box. Since there are no other ways in the utility itself to do this, I would like to know if I can determine how ...
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New host does not show up on Nagios Core Web Interface
I've been having a few problems with my Nagios Core server, every time I add a host to it won't show up on the web interface although it is being monitored and the system notifies when the host goes ...
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Is there a way to monitor a GrandStream registration status?
I have a provider locked GrandStream device and I had some issues where the device would unregister itself during the night and I would lose my phone line.
I cannot afford to not notice when the VoIP ...
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Monitor performance/latency while copying file across Point 2 point circuit
This is my first post here, i did do a quick search couldn't find exactly what i was looking for.
I am copying a file from one server located in NW part of the country to another server located in ...
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DISK CRITICAL - /dev/xvda1 is not accessible: Permission denied
I've configured nagios to check status on specific server. Only the cpu status showing. TCP and Disk spaces are not showing. But in the when i check the status of Disk and TCP that shows result. ...
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Health check for samba domain controller, which does more than port checking
Usually in a http(s) world an health check would be implemented with a http(s) url check, like curl https://my.host.com/health and this would return a status indicating the health.
A Samba Domain ...
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How do I monitor the size of a folder (Windows 7)?
I'm looking for a way to monitor the size of a folder (all files and sub folders). If a certain size is reached there should be some kind of message. The message should be displayed after windows ...
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How to measure memory throughput utilization percentage?
To check the amount of disk space used on Windows, opening This PC is enough. To check system-wide disk utilization (how hard the disk is working), one can see it in the Windows 10 Task Manager.
To ...
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Monitoring of folder not working under certain circumstances
I use a powershell script (based on this) to monitor a folder and knowing when a file is created.
My script is the following:
### SET FOLDER TO WATCH + FILES TO WATCH + SUBFOLDERS YES/NO
$...