CIS 527

Lecture 28 - Monitoring

Processor Usage

• Windows - Resource Monitor, Process Explorer
• Ubuntu - top, vmstat, ps, glances

Memory Usage

• Windows - Resource Monitor, Process Explorer
• Ubuntu - free

Disk Usage

• Windows - Disk Management, Windirstat
• Ubuntu - du, df, iostat

Network Usage

• Windows - Resource Monitor, TCPView
• Ubuntu - netstat, ss, tcptrack, wireshark

Inventory

Every good system administrator should keep an up-to-date inventory of all systems being managed

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

• Read data from systems via network
• Some system settings can be changed
• Typically present on networking devices
• GOOD: Easy to read data on many systems
• BAD: Must be properly configured or can be security issue

Enterprise Solutions

• Cacti
• Nagios
• Deep Freeze
• Many Others

Enterprise Solutions

• Zabbix
• Hyperic
• Munin
• Cacti
• Nagios
• Ganglia

Features? Downsides? Would you use?

SWOT Analysis

• Research K-State's IT infrastructure (or choose an IT infrastructure familiar to you)
• Formulate one change that you would like to make
• Perform a SWOT analysis regarding that change

SWOT Analysis

• Internal Strengths - things that you are good at
• Internal Weaknesses - things that you are bad at

SWOT Analysis

• External Opportunities - things you can exploit to get better
• External Threats - things that could exploit you and make you worse

Presentation

• Overview of the IT org (~1-2 min)
• Internal Strengths (~1.5 min)
• Internal Weaknesses (~1.5 min)
• External Opportunities (~1.5 min)
• External Threats (~1.5 min)
• Overall Recommendation (~2 min)
• Questions (~2 min)
TOTAL: 10 Minutes

Assignments

• Lab 7 - Backups & Monitoring - Due Friday May 5th by 11:59 PM
• Create Backup & Monitoring Strategies
• Turn in on K-State Canvas!