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Chapter 23

This document discusses monitoring system processes and file systems in Red Hat Linux. It describes how to use the ps and df commands to view system processes and disk space usage. It also explains how to use the GNOME System Monitor graphical utility and the diskcheck tool to monitor file systems. The document concludes by mentioning the Hardware Browser and lspci commands that can be used to view system hardware information.

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Chapter 23

This document discusses monitoring system processes and file systems in Red Hat Linux. It describes how to use the ps and df commands to view system processes and disk space usage. It also explains how to use the GNOME System Monitor graphical utility and the diskcheck tool to monitor file systems. The document concludes by mentioning the Hardware Browser and lspci commands that can be used to view system hardware information.

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Chapter – 23

Monitoring System
Information
Objectives:

At the end of this module, you would 
have gained fair knowledge on:

•System Processes
•Monitoring system processes
•Monitoring file systems
System Processes
The  ps  –ax  command  displays  a  list  of 
current  system  processes,  including  processes 
owned  by  other  users.  To  display  the  owner  of 
the  processes  along  with  the  processes  use  the 
command ps aux. 
You  can  use  the  ps  command  in 
combination  with  the  grep  command  to  see  if  a 
process  is  running.  For  example,  to  determine  if 
Gnome-RPM  is  running,  use  the  following 
command: 
# ps ax | grep gnorpm
            If you would like to use a graphical interface with 
free, you can use the GNOME System Monitor. To start 
it on the GNOME desktop, go to the Main Menu Button
=>  Programs  =>  System  =>  System Monitor  or  type 
gtop at a shell prompt withing X window.
File systems
The  df  command  reports  the  system's  disk  space 
usage. If you type the command df at a shell prompt, the 
output looks similar to the following: 
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on/dev/hda2 10325716 2902060
6899140 30% //dev/hda1 15554 8656
6095 59% /boot/dev/hda3 20722644
2664256 17005732 14% /home
To  view  the  system's  disk  space  usage  in  a 
graphical format, use the Filesystems tab in the GNOME System
Monitor. To start it on the GNOME desktop, go to the Main Menu
Button  (on  the  Panel)  =>  Programs  =>  System  =>  System
Monitor or type gtop at a shell prompt from within any X Window 
System desktop. Then choose the Filesystems tab. 
Monitoring File systems
Red Hat Linux provides a utility called diskcheck 
that  monitors  the  amount  of  free  disk  space  on  the  system. 
Based  on  the  configuration  file,  it  will  send  email  to  the 
system administrator when one  or more  disk drives reach  a 
specified capacity. 
This utility is run as an hourly cron task. 
The following variables can be defined in /etc/diskcheck.conf: 
•defaultCutoff
•cutoff[/dev/partition] 
•cutoff[/mountpoint] 
•exclude 
•ignore 
Hardware
If  you  are  having  trouble  configuring  your 
hardware  or  just  want  to  know  what  hardware  is  in 
your  system,  you  can  use  the  Hardware Browser
application  to  display  the  hardware  that  can  be 
probed. 
To start the program, type hwbrowser at a shell 
prompt.  As  shown  in  the  figure  given  below  it 
displays  your  CD-ROM  devices,  floppy  disks,  hard 
drives  and their partitions, network devices, pointing 
devices, system devices, and video cards. 
Click  on  the  category  name  in  the  left  menu, 
and the information will be displayed. 
You  can  also  use  the  lspci command  to 
list  all  PCI  devices.  Use  the  command  lspci -v  for 
more  verbose  information  or  lspci -vv  for  very 
verbose output. 

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