James Kiarie 
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
On April 23rd, 2020, the Canonical team released the much-anticipated Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) release. The latest release takes over from its predecessor Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and ships with a new and sleek desktop theme, an improved overall look-and-feel, Linux kernel 5.4, ZFS file … Read more
Redis is an acronym for Remote dictionary server. It’s an open source, in-memory and persistent key-value database / store which stores data as key-value pairs and also doubles up as a message broker. Redis supports a wide array of data structures including sets, lists, hashes, … Read more
VirtualBox is a free and open source, cross platform virtualization tool from Oracle that allows you to create virtual machines and try out different operating systems. It’s easy to install and use and you can create your own virtual machines, assign them resources such as … Read more
Yarn is a JavaScript package manager developed by Facebook that provides a list of benefits over its counterpart NPM. Some of these include: Faster rate of package downloads, ability to download offline packages and auto-generation of lock files. In this brief tutorial, we will give … Read more
You can easily increase the size of your root volume of an AWS instance (EC2) without incurring any form of downtime or interrupted associated with a reboot. In this tutorial, we will give you a step-by-step procedure on how you can extend an EBS boot … Read more
