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Ultimate Boot CD 5.2.3 Released

Apr 302013

Ultimate Boot CD has released version 5.2.3. Please let us know what you think about the tool in the comments below. If you would like to download it follow the link below to download it below from Server Ninjas. If you get a chance stop by the Ultimate Boot CD website and thank them for this great tool. We are just a distributor of the ISO. The project team over at Ultimate Boot CD does the real work.

Download:

http://www.serverninjas.com/ultimate-tool-list/boot-utilities/ultimate-boot-cd/ultimate-boot-cd-download

Overview From The Ultimate Boot CD Website

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.

Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.

Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn’t you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!

Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices. You can access the same tools as you would from the CD version.

New features in UBCD V5.x include:

New! The Linux-based distro Parted Magic is now included with UBCD V5.0. This should be the method of choice when you need to resize/rescue partitions, access NTFS filesystems or work with USB storage devices.

New! UBCD V5.x now supports both syslinux/isolinux and grub4dos. This helps improve the chances that UBCD will boot on any particular machine.

When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.

There is allot more information over at the main Ultimate Boot CD website. Please follow the link below!

Ultimate Boot CD Main Site

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vnStat – A Console Based Network Traffic Monitor On Ubuntu

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Apr 292013

I have started to do additional work with Ubuntu server over the past few months. The application I have been running on the serves consumes and generates a lot of network traffic. The easiest solution I have found to capture network traffic usage on Ubuntu server is vnStat. This tool is a network traffic monitor that is very easy to implement. The tool vnStat tracks hourly, daily and monthly traffic for the selected interfaces. You can also monitor real-time traffic on a selected NIC. Check out the quick install and examples of some of the reports you can run from vnStat. Please let us know what think about this quick and easy program to monitor network traffic on your Ubuntu server.

Ubuntu Server Quick Install

1. Log into the server.

2. Run the following command – “sudo apt-get install vnstat”

3. Note the active interfaces on your server.

After the install you will be able to gather reports about bandwidth usage. Examples are based on a machine with one NIC.

Daily Bandwidth Report

vnstat -i eth0 -d

Hourly Bandwidth Report

vnstat -i etho -h

Monthly Bandwidth Report

vnstat -i etho -m

Real time speed report

vnstat -i etho -l

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PAL Version 2.1 Released

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Jan 152012

PAL version 2.1 was released on November 8, 2011. I just wanted to take a few minutes to create another post so hopefully more people will hear about this great tool. PAL stands for Performance Analysis Of Logs and is hosted on SourceForge. Clint Huffman who is a premier field engineer (PFE) for Microsoft is the main contributor to the project.

PAL is used to read performance logs from Windows and analyze them based on thresholds that are set. From the SourceForge website here are some of the features.

Thresholds files for most of the major Microsoft products such as IIS, MOSS, SQL Server, BizTalk, Exchange, and Active Directory.
An easy to use GUI interface which makes creating batch files for the PAL.ps1 script.
A GUI editor for creating or editing your own threshold files.
Creates an HTML based report for ease of copy/pasting into other applications.
Analyzes performance counter logs for thresholds using thresholds that change their criteria based on the computer’s role or hardware specs.

In the future plan on looking for some tutorials on how to use PAL. In the meantime please check out the links below. If you have used to tool please leave me a comment on how you liked it.