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System and network Monitoring

INTRODUCTION
As computers have gotten smaller and networks have gotten bigger, most of us have found ourselves worrying about more and more machines and network devices. In the old days, the typical installation of a small number of central servers, a larger number of ASCII terminals, and a few point-to-point serial or network links meant that a lot of system monitoring could be handled by periodic manual inspection or a few shell scripts, cron jobs, and mail messages.
These days, when there seems to be at least one server for each possible function; when everyone has a machine with what used to be thought of as major processing power on their desk; when networks are bigger, more complicated, and smarter; and when everything from modems to printers to soda machines is network-connected, local monitoring just isn't enough. Virtually every site needs some form of distributed or network-based monitoring mechanism, if only to have some ability......

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