NVMe-CLI provides Linux command-line tools for inspecting NVMe SSD health, managing namespaces, running self-tests and configuring NVMe-oF.
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Tag: system administration
sg3_utils – utilities for managing SCSI devices
sg3_utils provides command-line SCSI utilities for device inquiry, capacity reporting, error analysis, diagnostics and storage testing.
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sdparm – inspect and configure SCSI device parameters
sdparm inspects and modifies SCSI device settings, including mode pages, caching, power management and device identification data.
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openSeaChest – diagnostic and management tools for storage devices
openSeaChest provides cross-platform command-line utilities for storage diagnostics, firmware updates, secure erasure and drive settings.
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oVirt – enterprise virtualization management platform
oVirt manages KVM virtual machines and clusters through a web console, with live migration, storage management, templates and permissions.
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OpenQRM – data centre and cloud management platform
OpenQRM manages physical servers, virtual machines and storage infrastructure with automated provisioning and extensible integrations.
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Squid – caching proxy for the Web
Squid is a caching web proxy with access controls, authentication, content adaptation, HTTPS handling and forward/reverse proxy support.
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systemd – system and service manager for Linux
systemd manages Linux services, boot processes, timers, logs, devices and networking, with resource controls and administration tools.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – System Administration
Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering disk cloning, partition tools, configuration management, application servers, data recovery and more.
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alive – periodic network connectivity checker
alive periodically contacts configured network hosts, with randomised intervals, multiple targets and automatic configuration reloading.
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40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Essential System Tools: Unison – Excellent Console and Graphical File Synchronization Software
Unison is a file-synchronization tool that allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor
nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.
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Essential System Tools: Neofetch – System Information Tool written in Bash
Neofetch is a command-line interface system information script written in bash 3.2+. The script displays information about your system next to an image, your operating system logo, or any ASCII/image file of your choice. It’s designed to capture information about your system and display it in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.
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Essential System Tools: ddrescue – Data recovery software
This is the tenth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll look at ddrescue.
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Essential System Tools: journalctl – query and display messages from the journal
This is the eighth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. For this article, we’ll examine journalctl, a systemd utility.
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Essential System Tools: BleachBit – open source system cleaning software
This is the sixth in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities. We’re recommending a graphical utility that is excellent at giving your system a deep clean. It’s called BleachBit.
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11 More Enlightening Free Linux Books – Part 3
The purpose of this article is to identify insightful and well written Linux books that can be downloaded without charge. The majority of the books featured in this article are themselves released under an open source license.
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6 Best Free System Recovery Software
Linux and other operating systems are blessed with powerful tools to retrieve and recover valuable data. However, it is not always possible to recover data on a running system. Sometimes the machine will not even boot. This might arise if the boot loader has become corrupted, there is damage to a partition, or vital operating system files have been lost.
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12 More of the Best Free Linux Books – Part 3
There are literally thousands of Linux books which are available to purchase from any good (online) book shop. However, the focus of this article is to highlight champion Linux books which make an invaluable contribution to learning about Linux, and which are also available to download without charge.
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