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How to Monitor Linux Machines with Observium

In our last article, we set up Observium for monitoring servers and network devices. This guide focus on adding Linux machines to the Observium tool for monitoring. Prerequisites Setup Observium monitoring tool for your environment. READ: Install Observium on CentOS 7 / Ubuntu 16.04 Here, we will install and configure SNMP on the client servers […]

Install Observium on CentOS 7 / Debian 9 / Ubuntu 16.04 – A Network Management and Monitoring System

Observium is an open source, low-maintenance, auto-discovering network monitoring tool for operating systems and network hardware. It supports Linux and Windows operating systems and network hardware like Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP. Observium is based on AMP (Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack and it collects the monitoring metrics via SNMP protocol. It uses RRDtool to […]

How to Configure OpenStack Networking to Enable Access to VM Instances

This tutorial is the second part of our OpenStack series. In this tutorial, we will go through steps to configure OpenStack Networking to allow access to VM instances from external networks. Prerequisites Follow the below link to install OpenStack so that we can begin the network configuration. READ: Install Single Node OpenStack on CentOS 7 […]

How to Install PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 & Debian 9

As you already know that both Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 9 has been shipped with PHP 7 and applications which are designed to work with PHP 5 like vnStat PHP Frontend, PHP Server Monitor, etc., may not work due to compatibility issues. In such cases, you would need to install PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 […]