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Hdparm is a useful system utility for setting (E)IDE hard drive parameters. For example, hdparm can be used to tweak hard drive performance and to spin down hard drives for power conservation.
Welcome to Heartbeat. This is a new EXPERIMENTAL beat for testing service availability using PING based on ICMP, TCP or higher level protocols.
Heartbeat is a lightweight daemon that you install on a remote server to periodically check the status of your services and determine whether they are available. Unlike Metricbeat, which only tells you if your servers are up or down, Heartbeat tells you whether your services are reachable. Heartbeat is useful when you need to verify that you’re meeting your service level agreements for service uptime. It’s also useful for other scenarios, such as security use cases, when you need to verify that no one from the outside can access services on your private enterprise server. You can configure Heartbeat to ping all DNS-resolvable IP addresses for a specified hostname. That way, you can check all services that are load-balanced to see if they are available. When you configure Heartbeat, you specify monitors that identify the hostnames that you want to check. Each monitor runs based on the schedule that you specify. For example, you can configure one monitor to run every 10 minutes, and a different monitor to run between the hours of 9:00 and 17:00. Heartbeat currently supports monitors for checking hosts via: ICMP (v4 and v6) Echo Requests. Use the icmp monitor when you simply want to check whether a service is available. This monitor requires root access. TCP. Use the tcp monitor to connect via TCP. You can optionally configure this monitor to verify the endpoint by sending and/or receiving a custom payload. HTTP. Use the http monitor to connect via HTTP. You can optionally configure this monitor to verify that the service returns the expected response, such as a specific status code, response header, or content. The tcp and http monitors both support SSL/TLS and some proxy settings.
Tools required to be installed on Heat provisioned cloud instances
help2man is a script to create simple man pages from the --help and --version output of programs. Since most GNU documentation is now in info format, this provides a way to generate a placeholder man page pointing to that resource while still providing some useful information.