Windows: Monitoring Logs and Text File Changes in Real Time

If a Windows service or application writes logs not to the Event Viewer (.evt and .evtx files), but to plain text log files, you sometimes need to display and monitor new events in real-time.

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Backing Up Docker Volumes

To automate docker partition backups, I recommend using Docker-volume-backup image (https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup). This lightweight image (about 15 MB) allows you to connect to any volume in docker and backup files to a local directory, S3-compatible storage (AWS S3, MimIO, Ceph, etc.), or send save it to a remote device via WebDAV or SSH.

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Install and Configure Zabbix Proxy on Linux

Zabbix proxy is one of the infrastructure components that allows you to collect monitoring data from multiple devices and send data to the Zabbix Server. Zabbix Proxy can be used to collect monitoring data from remote locations, from hosts behind a firewall, or to reduce the load on the central Zabbix Server in large environments.

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Using Predictive IntelliSense in PowerShell

Predictive IntelliSense is a new feature in PSReadline 2.1 and is available by default in PowerShell 7.2. When typing a command in the PowerShell console, Predictive IntelliSense suggests the appropriate commands you have previously typed (using the history of previous PowerShell commands). Predictive IntelliSense works differently than the TAB auto-completion feature (or Bash’s TAB auto-completion). the suggestion of subsequent characters in the command is displayed in gray text after the cursor.

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Select-Object: Filtering Output in PowerShell

The Select-Object cmdlet allows you to display certain properties of an object in a PowerShell command. Select-Object can select unique objects, a specified number of objects, or objects at a specified position in an array. Also, some PowerShell cmdlets don’t display all of the object’s properties, and you must use Select-Object to display additional attributes.

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Getting Started with MySQL/MariaDB Initial Configuration

In this article, we have described the basic configuration settings that must be set when deploying a standalone server with MySQL or MariaDB. We’ll look at the initial configuration parameters that must be checked before starting the server.

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