Tag: Linux Performance

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Install Zabbix with MariaDB PHP7 HTTPD and on Centos7

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When it comes to monitoring, one of the famous web application for monitoring is Zabbix. In this article, we will see the basic installation and configuration of a Zabbix machine on a CentOS7. Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software tool [Read More…]

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An agentless servers inventory with Ansible & Ansible-CMDB

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Building from scratch an agentless inventory system for Linux servers is a very time-consuming task. To have precise information about your server’s inventory, Ansible comes to be very handy, especially if you are restricted to install an agent on the [Read More…]

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Debugging disk issues with blktrace, blkparse, btrace and btt in Linux environment

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blktrace is a block layer IO tracing mechanism which provides detailed information about request queue operations up to user space. There are three major components: a kernel component, a utility to record the i/o trace information for the kernel to [Read More…]

Linux System Security

Auditing Linux Operating System with Lynis

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Auditing a Linux System is one of the most important aspect when it comes to security. After deploying a simple Centos 7 Linux machine on virtual box, I made an audit using Lynis. It is amazing how many tiny flaws [Read More…]