Squid Proxy is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Squid has a variety of uses and advantages such as speeding up web browsing for the end user, reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. It also can work as web filtering and can control the browsing traffic. Squid is based on the Harvest Cache Daemon developed in the early 1990’s. It was one of two forks from the codebase after the Harvest project ran to completion. In this …
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NSclient++ is an agent which can be used to monitor Windows devices. Using this agent we can monitor system metrics, services, and processes on the target machine using the Windows Server configuration Wizard. This agent must be installed on the target Windows Machine/Server. In this scenario, Nagios core is installed on a CentOS machine.
Some scripts/applications require certain scripts be run at a certain time to function properly. On Windows servers, we can set them up to run at certain times by creating a scheduled task (which is similar to how you can run cron jobs on Linux servers). Creating a Scheduled Task in Plesk: We can set up Scheduled Tasks in Plesk by doing the following: Log into Plesk The user you are logging in with should have enough permissions to create a scheduled task. Windows Shared customers automatically have permission, and the …
PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language designed for windows system administration. Windows PowerShell helps to control and automate the administration of Windows operating systems and of applications that run on Windows. PowerShell built on the Microsoft .NET Framework.
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a free software to monitor and measure the traffic load on network links.This provide us the graphical representation of network traffic. MRTG gives only an average value of transfer. From this value we can calculate the exact monthly bandwidth using the following equation: Total months bandwidth = ( Monthly Average incoming + Monthly average outgoing data ) /8 x 60 sec x 60 min x 24 hrs x 30.5 days If you require help, contact SupportPRO Server Admin