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Henry
May 18, 2012, 8:19:43 AM5/18/12
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Anyone recommend a program that can monitor & display the comings &
goings on a web server in real-time?
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Just Henry
goings on a web server in real-time?
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Just Henry
DenverD
May 18, 2012, 11:10:39 AM5/18/12
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On 05/18/2012 02:19 PM, Henry wrote:
> Anyone recommend a program that can monitor & display the comings &
> goings on a web server in real-time?
i think you need to be a little more specific...if you want to see "the
> Anyone recommend a program that can monitor & display the comings &
> goings on a web server in real-time?
comings" in and "goings" out, have a look at wireshark or if you just
wanna see the magnitude of the ins and outs, try iftop..
if you wanna see whats cooking on the box itself: try top, htop, atop,
iotop or similar..
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DenverD
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DenverD
May 18, 2012, 3:34:36 PM5/18/12
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On 05/18/2012 07:39 PM, houghi wrote:
> Or perhaps he is looking for tail to look at the log files.
i agree...
and, i know you know it is so very hard to guess what s/he wants to do..
so, at this point there are as many good answers as there are good
guesses about what is wanted/needed..
GIGO
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DenverD
> Or perhaps he is looking for tail to look at the log files.
i agree...
and, i know you know it is so very hard to guess what s/he wants to do..
so, at this point there are as many good answers as there are good
guesses about what is wanted/needed..
GIGO
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DenverD
Henry
May 18, 2012, 8:42:07 PM5/18/12
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Just Henry
DenverD
May 19, 2012, 2:59:52 AM5/19/12
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On 05/19/2012 02:42 AM, Henry wrote:
> Which would you recommend?
i can't recommend any particular one, because i have no idea what
(exactly) you wish to monitor!
do you want to monitor the volume of traffic in and out?
do you want to monitor the actual bits flowing in and out?
do you want to monitor the IPs of the folks contacting the site?
three questions (of dozenS) and each one has a different tool to answer.
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DenverD
> Which would you recommend?
i can't recommend any particular one, because i have no idea what
(exactly) you wish to monitor!
do you want to monitor the volume of traffic in and out?
do you want to monitor the actual bits flowing in and out?
do you want to monitor the IPs of the folks contacting the site?
three questions (of dozenS) and each one has a different tool to answer.
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DenverD
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Henry
May 20, 2012, 11:56:45 AM5/20/12
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On 20/05/2012 15:07, houghi wrote:
> houghi wrote:
>> Or perhaps seeing if the site is up. Just wrote a script for that. No,
>> not using ping. Ping is the most overrated tool in the entire universe.
>> Even worse, in this solarsystem. (Wait, what?)
>
> Well, here I was, using curl and that works great on websites, but there
> are better tools that work on any kind of service, like nmap. Perhaps
> best to use both, depending on what you want to test.
>
> But never ping. Ping only has linited value in specific situations:
> 1) You control the whole network from start to end
> 2) You only are interested in positive answers from ping
> 3) You are aware that a negative answer means using other tools anyway
> 4) You know that a negative answer does not mean anything
> 5) You will not know if the service is running by getting a reply
> 6) You want to work more by using ping and later other tools as ping is
> useless for any analytical purpose
>
>> Anywho. We still have no answer (or a question) from the GP.
>
> And still nothing. :-D
>
> houghi
The GP is working his way through the suggested programs to see what
suits ;)
Just Henry
> houghi wrote:
>> Or perhaps seeing if the site is up. Just wrote a script for that. No,
>> not using ping. Ping is the most overrated tool in the entire universe.
>> Even worse, in this solarsystem. (Wait, what?)
>
> Well, here I was, using curl and that works great on websites, but there
> are better tools that work on any kind of service, like nmap. Perhaps
> best to use both, depending on what you want to test.
>
> But never ping. Ping only has linited value in specific situations:
> 1) You control the whole network from start to end
> 2) You only are interested in positive answers from ping
> 3) You are aware that a negative answer means using other tools anyway
> 4) You know that a negative answer does not mean anything
> 5) You will not know if the service is running by getting a reply
> 6) You want to work more by using ping and later other tools as ping is
> useless for any analytical purpose
>
>> Anywho. We still have no answer (or a question) from the GP.
>
> And still nothing. :-D
>
> houghi
The GP is working his way through the suggested programs to see what
suits ;)
Just Henry
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