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Installing BMC Patrol Agent 9.5

This topic describes how to perform a first-time installation of the BMC patrol agent, which includes the system collectors and service daemon.

Setting up BMC event log file and size

When the cache becomes full, events are removed from it and placed in the repository file, which uses the following naming convention

Event log for BMC Patrol 9.5

As new events are created, older events are written to a log file called the PEM log.

Process monitoring using prstat

The prstat statistics utility shows a top-level summary of the processes that are using system resources currently.

Firefox Tweaks

This article lists a number of tweaks that I've researched and implimented in my own Firefox profile.

Adding a SAMBA user

This is a short how-to post to provide simple steps to add users to a SAMBA environment.

SSH related commands

A short article which provides a brief description for ssh related commands