How to Check Disk Read Write Speed in Linux

Measuring sequential disk performance is easy in linux as every modern Linux distribution comes with a command line utility called hdparm. Hdparm is a free tool to measure sequential disk performance which is primarily used to tune and optimize disk parameters. It is important to read hdparm man page and perform full backup before using …

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How to Check Software or Packages Version in Linux

There are a variety of software installed on linux and windows servers. In particular time, we are required to review and check the version of the software or packages that we have installed on any operating system. I have prepared a list command line on how to check the software and packages versions of linux CentOS …

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How to Configure LDAP Authentication for Nagios on CentOS 5.5

This article assumes that you already installed the nagios server on LAMP CentOS server and also installed 389 directory server. In the previous tutorial, the user that is allowed to manage nagios is nagiosadmin which has been created using htpasswd. In this article, I will show you how to configure LDAP authentication for Nagios on …

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How to Pass Clients/Visitors IP Through Varnish to Nginx

Varnish is a great open source software known as a HTTP reverse proxy is typically run in front of web servers such as Apache or Nginx. In this case we will discuss Varnish and Nginx . The aim of Varnish is to stores the Varnish cache and remember what web server response to the user …

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How to Install and Configure EPEL Repository on CentOS 5.8

EPEL repository is another extra repository that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS server. In this post, i will show you on how to install and configure the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository …

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