Sysdig is an open source application, It captures system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then saves, filters and analyzes. It is scriptable in Lua and consists of a command line interface and an effective interactive UI, Sysdig is a combination of strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + transaction tracing + awesome sauce. This article explains about -“How To Monitor Your Ubuntu System with Sysdig”.Installing SysdigConfigure the apt repository with trusted Draios GPG key as shown below –# curl -s https://s3.amazonaws.com/download.draios.com/DRAIOS-GPG-KEY.public | apt-key add - # curl -s -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/draios.list http://download.draios.com/stable/deb/draios.listTo update the package ... Read More

Parse server is an open source and is like mobile back-end. It is owned by Facebook since 2013. This server may be deployed to any infrastructure that may run Node.Js and MongoDB. This article explains about – How To Install Parse Server on Ubuntu.Prerequisitespython-software-properties packageNode.jsMongoDBTo add python-software-properties package, use the following command-$ sudo apt-get install build-essential git python-software-propertiesThe sample output should be like this –Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version (12.1ubuntu2). build-essential set to manually installed. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:    linux-headers-4.4.0-31 ... Read More

Use ImageMagick to create, edit, compose or convert bitmap pix. It could actually read and write snapshots in a type of codecs (over 200) including PNG, JPEG, JPEG-2000, GIF, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP, Postscript, PDF, and SVG. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and develop into snapshots, alter image colors, follow various certain effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.This article explains about -“How to Install ImageMagick on Ubuntu”Before installing ImageMagick, It should be required, to build essentials as shown below –$sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall && apt-get build-dep imagemagick -yThe sample output should ... Read More

Cacti is a Network monitoring device that creates personalized graphs of server efficiency. It is accessed and managed via an online entrance-finish. This article explains on – How to install and set up cacti on Ubuntu.PrerequisitesLAMPSNMP, SNMPD and RRDtoolsTo install LAMP, add the following repository as shown below –$ sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty universe'To update the packages, using the following command –$ sudo apt-get updateTo install LAMP, use the following command –$ sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server-5.6 php libapache2-mod-phpThe sample output should be like this –Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libapache2-mod-php is already ... Read More

In this article, we will learn – How we can install Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04. Webmin is a web-based control panel with dashboards for any Linux server machines, which allows you to control your server with a simple interface, where we can change the settings of common application packages with simple clicks. Webmin can also be used to add new users accounts and update the packages on the server from the Webmin dashboard itself.Pre-requisitesUbuntu 16.04 machine with a non-root user with Sudo permissions.Apache, PHP, and MySQL Installed on the Ubuntu 16.04 machine.Installing Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04Assuming that we have all ... Read More

In this article, we will be learning about – how to configure and install the Composer, A composer is a tool which manages dependency for the PHP, which will be useful to facilitate the installation and update of the project dependencies which also show the appropriate versions required for the project requirements.Pre-requisitesOne machine with Ubuntu 16.04.A non-root user with root privileges on the machine.Installing the DependenciesBefore installing the composer, we need to update the machine with the below command –.$ sudo apt-get updateOnce the system updates, we shall proceed with the installation setup where we will be installing the packages ... Read More

In this article, we will learn – How to install and configure the Sysdiag tool. Sysdiag is an open-source activity monitoring tool which can be used to capture and analyze application logs which have powerful filtering features with customizable outputs.Sysdig works from getting the information from the kernel which allows capturing system calls and the information which comes to the kernel. It also monitors the servers which are installed on the system.Pre-requisitesTo complete this demo we need the following requirements − film John Wick − Chapter 2 online.Ubuntu 16.04 installed on the machineA non-root user with Sudo permission of the ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to setup and Configure Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04. Ghost os a light-weight and open-source blogging programs which can be used easily and can be customizable, also have many more themes to use.Pre-RequisitesIn this setup, we need the following –Ubuntu 16.04 installed server machine.A non-root user with Sudo permissions on the machine.Nginx web server installed on the server.Ghost Installation on Ubuntu 16.04We will install the ghost using the Ghosts official repository which is hosted on GitHub.First, we will get the latest version of the Ghost using the bellow command.$ wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip Output:    --2017-05-18 ... Read More

In this article we will learn about – how to configure and setup UFW ( Firewall) on Ubuntu 16.04, UFW stands for Uncomplicated Firewall which acts as an interface to IPTABLES that simplifies the process of the configuration of firewalls it will be a very hard for a beginners to learns and configure the firewall rules where we will secure the network from unknown users are machines. UFW works on the policies we configure as rules.Pre-requisitesFor this, we needed a non-root user with root permission on the machine.Installing the UFW (Firewall)UFW is installed by default with Ubuntu, if not installed ... Read More

In this article, we will learn how to install NFS on Ubuntu 16.04Network File System (NFS) protocol and a filesystem which allows you to access the shared folders from the remote system or server and also allows you to mount as a remote directory on the servers. This allows you to share the storage space between different clients in different locations. NFS has been always the easiest way to access the remote storages over a network.To accomplish this demo, we need two systems which Ubuntu installed and user with sudo permissions with a private network.Installing the Packages on ServerWe will ... Read More