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Configure and Use a Network Monitoring System With New Book From Packt

10 Dec

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on the Zenoss, the Open Source network monitoring system. Written by Michael Badger, Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring will teach users to configure Zenoss Core via an easy to use web interface.

 

Zenoss is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope that provides an integrated product for monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across layers and across platforms. Zenoss provides an AJAX-enabled web interface that allows system administrators to monitor availability, inventory/configuration, performance, and events.

For system administrators, network engineers, and security analysts, it is essential to keep a track of network traffic. At some point it will be necessary to read the network traffic directly instead of monitoring application level details. Network security audits, debug network configurations, and usage patterns analyzing can all require network traffic monitoring. This… Read More

 

Is Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Hard Drive Malfunction Bugging You?

10 Dec

Previously, in the IT world, most people were focusing on Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 family hard drive and were worry about some drive-level issues, such as hard disk drive status stays BUSY; hard disk drive being detected with 0 in LBA; hard disk drive reports SMART error on startup, etc.

However, all these problems now can be fixed without damaging the data, instead works for data recovery. That will be unique features which are only available in HD Doctor Utility; no other similar HDD repair and data recovery tool is capable for solution before this time. It’s being a big step.

The problem that HDD being detected with 0 GB is a typical malfunction for Barracuda 7200.11. Such drives can be detected normally but the data area is inaccessible with LBA detected as 0.

Here is an option: the upgrade version of HD Doctor for Seagate 3.0 adds the feature… Read More

 
 

7 Reasons You Have A Slow Computer

09 Dec

Even if your PC is slow, you no longer have to go in search of a technical support person to fix it. With a little guidance, you can now get rid of most PC problems on your own. There are 7 common reasons why your PC is slow.

Overheating processor

Modern processors generate more heat and when the temperature rises above the level specified via the BIOS, it can be why your PC is slow. Cleaning your PC fan can help. You should also check the fan motor to see if any bearings are loose. Setting the BIOS temperature level to a slightly higher figure than the current one can help when your PC is slow.

Malfunctioning RAM

If the installed RAM is not compatible with your PC or is slower than the optimal level specified in the machine, that can be a reason why your PC is slow.… Read More

 
 

Recover data from Bad sectors in Hard Drive

08 Dec

There are so many reasons behind the corruptions of hard drive of computer system and some of them are hardware malfunction, improper shutdown, virus attacks and more. One of the most common problems which is being faced by everyone of us is the formation of bad sectors A bad sector is a sector on a computer’s hard drive that cannot be used due to permanent damage, such as physical damage to the disk parts. When found, these programs mark the sectors unusable and the operating system skips them in the future.. There are two types of bad sectors namely – Physical bad sectors and Logical bad sector.

The Logical bad sectors can be repaired  and can be easily taken care off using certain operating system commands or utility software. It can be detected by disk utility software such as CHKDSK or SCANDISK on Microsoft systems, or bad blocks on… Read More