Part II System monitoring #

There are programs, tools and utilities which you can use to examine the status of your system. This chapter introduces a few of them and describes their most important and frequently used parameters.

System log file analysis is one of the most important tasks when analyzing the system. In fact, looking at the system log files should be the first thing to do when maintaining or troubleshooting a system. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server automatically logs almost everything that happens on the system i…