This category contains all the Linux, Solaris and ELK based topics.
In this tutorial I will explain about how to use tar command in Solaris 11. Tar is a widely used tool for archiving and compressing the files in Unix environment. By default if you simply create .tar file then it will be just an archive of the files which is collected and grouped together in ... Read more
In this tutorial, I will take you through the different tools that can be used to check/test port connectivity in Linux. Test Port Connectivity You might be aware of curl, netstat, telnet and nc command in Linux: - curl - It is usually used for downloading web pages or files from a Linux/Unix command line. ... Read more
In this tutorial, I will take you through the steps to install and use netstat command in Linux. It is basically used to Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships. Install and Use Netstat Command Before you go and use netstat command you need to make sure it is installed ... Read more
In this tutorial, I will take you through Best Ping Command in Linux. Ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol network. It is abbreviated as "Packet Internet Groper". It is available for virtually all operating systems that have networking capability, including most ... Read more
In this tutorial, I will take you through the steps to create a network bonding/teaming in Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 7 allows administrators to bind multiple network interfaces together into a single, bonded, channel. Channel bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, simultaneously increasing the bandwidth and providing redundancy. Network ... Read more
In this article, I will take you through the steps to install all dependent packages without internet on RedHat/CentOS 7 with the help of an example. Sometimes your server resides in private network with no connection to outside world. For installing packages you probably won't be able to use yum package manager to download and ... Read more
In this article, we will look at the top 10 best Linux brctl command examples for Ethernet Network Bridge. brctl command used for ethernet bridges. When you have multiple ethernet interfaces on your server and want to combine and present them as single entity then you need to use the concept of ethernet bridges. For ... Read more
In this tutorial, we will go through top 12 Nmap commands to scan remote hosts. Nmap is a free and open-source network scanner created by Gordon Lyon. Nmap is used to discover hosts and services on a computer network by sending packets and analyzing the responses. Nmap provides a number of features for probing computer ... Read more
In this tutorial, we will go through Elasticsearch Backup and Restore procedure. Elasticsearch is an open source search engine based on Lucene, developed in Java. It provides a distributed and multitenant full-text search engine with an HTTP Dashboard web-interface (Kibana). The data is queried, accessed and stored in a JSON document format. Elasticsearch is a ... Read more
In this article, I will take you through 10 Best ElasticSearch API Query. Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java. Here we will see different types of Elasticsearch api query ... Read more