James Kiarie 
Google Drive is a cloud storage option that provides an excellent backup solution for all your files and folders. We cannot emphasize enough the importance of having backup copies of your files. Anything can happen at any time and when it does, you want to … Read more
Developed in Python & C++ languages, Checkmk is an open-source monitoring server that is an improvement of Nagios operating system with enhanced plugins and monitoring capabilities. Checkmk uses agents to collect and ship remote systems’ metrics to the server. The agents are available for both … Read more
Linux Mint 20, also referred to as Ulyana, was released in June 2020 and packs with a basket of new features and enhancements to improve your overall user experience. If you have Windows 10 already on your PC and would like to reap the full … Read more
Popularly known as K8s or Kube, Kubernetes is an opensource orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and monitoring of containerized applications. In simple terms, Kubernetes allows users to efficiently manage clusters which are made up of groups of running containers such as Linux containers. … Read more
Jinja2 is a powerful and easy to use python-based templating engine that comes in handy in an IT environment with multiple servers where configurations vary every other time. Creating static configuration files for each of these nodes is tedious and may not be a viable … Read more
In the previous article, we looked at how you can add Linux servers on the Zabbix server for monitoring. In this guide, we switch gears and focus our spotlight on how you can add a Windows host system to the Zabbix server for monitoring. For … Read more
In the previous article, we have covered how to Install Zabbix Server on CentOS 8. In this guide, we go a step further and show you how you can add a Linux host to the Zabbix Server so that we can monitor various metrics such … Read more
Zabbix is an open source monitoring tool that can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud depending on that you intend to monitor. With Zabbix, you can monitor a variety of devices: from physical servers, and network devices such as routers and switches on your … Read more
In a Linux system and pretty much all systems – log files are crucial when it comes to examining and troubleshooting errors. They provide important clues as to what could have gone wrong with various system services prior to failure. Any service installed on your … Read more
In the course of executing tasks in Ansible playbook, you might come across some tasks that are repetitive in nature. These are tasks that require you to create multiple plays, something which can be quite tedious. As with any programming language, loops in Ansible provide … Read more
An acronym for Network File Share, NFS is a cross-platform client/server protocol that allows clients machines to access files shared by the NFS server over a network. Client systems can locally mount the filesystems from the NFS server and access files and directories as though … Read more
A dual boot setup is a setup that allows users to have multiple operating systems installed on a single hard drive, each independent of each other. Each operating system has its own set of software and drivers which allows it to access the hardware components … Read more
