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How to install ntop on CentOS

How to install ntop on CentOS Follow the following steps 1-  Install rpmforge repository: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge Choose your CentOS vesion and install rpmforge repository 2- # yum install ntop 3-  There is a bug in the /etc/init.d/ntop startscript we need to … Continue reading

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How to Bind Multiple IP Addresses to a Single Network Interface Card (NIC)

How to Bind Multiple IP Addresses to a Single Network Interface Card (NIC) Network card information are located in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. Go into that directory. cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ The file we’re interested in is ifcfg-eth0, the interface for the Ethernet device. Let’s assume … Continue reading

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Step by Step Cacti installation for Monitoring on Cent OS

Step by Step Cacti installation for Monitoring on Cent OS Login as root Create the yum repository to install cacti through  yum #cd /var # mkdir download # wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm # rpm –import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt # rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm #yum update … Continue reading

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How to install SNMP client on Cent OS / Linux

How to install SNMP client on Cent OS / Linux Login as root # yum install net-snmp-utils Rename the snmpd.conf # mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.org # nano /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf copy and paste below line rocommunity  public syslocation  “Your Datacenter” syscontact   support@yourdomain.com save … Continue reading

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