System Management: Monitoring Tools Atop and LOSF

system management

Table of Contents
1 Project Outline...............................................................................................................................2
2 Monitoring Tool.............................................................................................................................2
3 Tools Installation and Accessing Features...................................................................................2
3.1 Install atop..............................................................................................................................2
3.2 Install LOSF...........................................................................................................................4
4 Summarize......................................................................................................................................4
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1 Project Outline
This project chooses the two monitoring tools from provided requirement table and
explore in depth the utility provided by the monitoring tools and how the tools can be used by
the system administrators. Here, user choose atop and LOSF monitoring tools to monitoring
the system processes. These are features are will be investigated.
2 Monitoring Tool
 LSOF
 ATOP
3 Tools Installation and Accessing Features
3.1 Install atop
Atop is an interactive ASCII full-screen performance monitor to view the load on a Linux
system. It is capable of showing the occupation of critical hardware resources like CPU,
memory, disk. It also shows which processes are responsible for the indicated load with
respect to cpu and memory load on process level ("How to install atop in Linux", 2018).
 By typing the below command
sudo apt-get install atop
installation screen short attached below
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 After installation is completed, add atop into system start up
chkconfig –add atop
chkconfig atop on –level 235
atop
Output screenshot attached below
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