Hovhannes Avoyan

Do you want your customers and/or employees to have a speedy, no-hassle end-user experience when they use your website or server, respectively? Of course you do – because an unsatisfied end-user means lost business – as in the case of a customer – or a really annoyed employee – as in the case of a server. That’s why Monitis — the 100% Cloud-based, complete, and flexible IT monitoring solution that consolidates back-end monitoring, application monitoring, website monitoring, and cloud monitoring in an all-lin-one, central monitoring service (that was a mouthful) — has put together this collection of tips for optimizing HTML/CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and images. In order to check the effect of these tips Website administrators can use Monitis’ instant web page load test or use real browser full web page monitoring. So, here are some ways to speed things up: Tip ... (more)

Linux: Secure as a brick

People who are familiar with me know that there are two things I’m not forgiving about. The first is backups, the second is security. If backups interest you, perhaps we can discuss it some other time. This time we’re going to discuss security. I’m going to outline in the following article some of the best practices I’ve learned along the years and help you “almost brick up, but not just yet” or “harden” your Linux server. While reading this article, however, I suggest also reading this article as well. As we both try to tackle the same issues. I believe both articles eventually... (more)

Summary of Blog Posts for Week of July 11

I hope everyone is enjoying summertime, at least in the northern hemisphere. I’m about to head out to the pool, but before I go, here is a summary of this week’s blog posts. 1. Introduction to Perl interface for Monitis API Monitis announces a simple way to access its API through Perl, a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. This post demonstrates some examples for using the API with Perl and describes some of the benefits of the programming language. The source can be found on our Github page. 2. 101 Tips to MySQL Tuning and Optimization With mo... (more)

Monitis–Where You Can Monitor Exchange 2010 with PowerShell

Did you know that you can use Monitis to monitor your critical applications such as Exchange? Microsoft Exchange is a popular and powerful enterprise messaging platform and provides critical collaboration tools. It’s very popular with companies, and it is important to ensure that every aspect of the messaging infrastructure is working flawlessly. And you do that (rather, we do it for you) by monitoring the most important parameters. Just add the following information to our recent trove of blog posts on ways to improve IT performance and administration via Monitis. So far, we’ve ... (more)

Create Linux User Login Monitor on Monitis

Monitis provides the ability to monitor almost any operation on your server.  Using simple Linux tools and scripts you are able to monitor each time a user logs into the server and capture various information, including username, host address and login service.  Using pam_script and bash scripts, you are able to transmit information to a Custom Monitor with this information. API Access The first thing you will need in order to create this monitor is the Monitis API Key and Secret Key.  The API Key is a alphanumeric code that allows you to access the Monitis API url’s and transmi... (more)