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Where can I see the current charging speed on Windows 10?
Type in powershell
gwmi -Class batterystatus -Namespace root\wmi
This gives you general info where one number is charge rate.
Then, another question is what that number is in amps...
I have three ...
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Check health of eMMC
You probably want to use the "mmc" utility from mmc-utils (https://packages.debian.org/stretch/mmc-utils). I have, however, not yet seen a write and/or bad block counter.
# mmc extcsd read /dev/...
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Check health of eMMC
Above answer is right that mmc-utils is the way to go. The version in git (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc-utils.git/) reports DEVICE_LIFE_TIME_EST_TYP_{A,B}, where 1 is 0-10% ...
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Auto-restart an executable after the application crashes
One solution is to use a batch file with an infinite for loop to automatically restart the application if it closes. There are two possibilities here, depending on how the application is designed.
If ...
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How to track a specified program activity
Use Process Monitor
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows
real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity.
This tool monitoring network activity also....
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tail -f equivalent for an URL
I answered the same question over here with a complete shell script that takes the URL as it's argument and tail -f's it. Here's a copy of that answer verbatim:
This will do it:
#!/bin/bash
file=$(...
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tail -f equivalent for an URL
curl with range option in combination with watch can be used to achieve this:
RANGES
HTTP 1.1 introduced byte-ranges. Using this, a client can request
to get only one or more subparts of a ...
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Monitor file changes
I like to use OSSEC, it has many options:
OSSEC watches it all, actively monitoring all aspects of Unix system
activity with file integrity monitoring, log monitoring, rootcheck,
and process ...
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Can I detect when a Windows process starts up without writing system level code?
You'd want to watch the process that STARTS the process, and not just the target process itself, most likely.
Process Monitor by SysInternals should be able to capture this.
Filter for the Visual ...
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infrastructure for secure network monitoring
Managed Ethernet switches often include a port mirroring (sometimes called port spanning) feature to allow all traffic to/from a given port to be mirrored to another port so you can hook up a packet ...
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What is the difference between Total Physical memory and RAM ?
The WMIC counter TotalPhysicalMemory is the subset of the installed RAM that is usable by Windows as ordinary RAM. In other words, this is the number against which you should evaluate numbers like ...
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Monitoring module missing in Icingaweb2
You might be missing the package for the monitoring module. Perhaps cingaweb2-module-monitoring from https://packages.debian.org/sid/admin/icingaweb2-module-monitoring may work?
I had the same issue ...
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Monitor which process create a file
You can't retrospectively determine what process created a file... You have to monitor the system while the file is created.
Use auditd to help you out.
Once it's installed and running, run the ...
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How can I monitor all and any Internet traffic from my home PC?
Resource Monitor (resmon.exe) is included at least in Windows 7, Windows 8, etc.
Menu Start → Search → resmon
Then switch to the "Network" tab to get a process-by-process breakdown of ...
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How to solve a very sluggish Windows 10 UI
To diag the CPU usage issues, you should use Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to capture CPU Sampling data / Profile.
To capture the performance data, install the Windows Performance Toolkit, which is ...
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Linux: per-application traffic monitoring (not nethogs)
You can use nethog with total bandwidth monitored per MB since it started with:
sudo nethogs -v 3
you can use iftop as an alternative too.
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Check health of eMMC
The emmcparam utility from micron gives you a view on erase block counts: emmcparm
You can use it with -E to get a summary:
# emmcparm -E /dev/mmcblk0
Device file = /dev/mmcblk0
EXT_CSD revision [192] ...
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Internet Traffic Monitoring
If you want to capture every traffic, you could use wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
If you are interested in the processes and which ports they use, you could download TCPView from ...
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SMART parameters monitoring, can Windows 10 do it on its own?
Yes, Windows has SMART built in, albeit very crude, as it only gets the status.
Open a command prompt and type wmic and hit Enter
Then type diskdrive get status and hit Enter
Type exit and hit ...
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Alert when a partition is read/written
mount.ntfs is a FUSE "userspace filesystem" host – it actually mounts a filesystem at /storage and will access the disk whenever some other process wants to access the filesystem.
So, start ...
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Detect ICMP requests on a Windows 10 System
Unfortunately it does not work with netstat, since ICMP doesn't depend on a port
No; it's because the ICMP handler does not use a regular socket, but is built into the IP stack. But if you had a ...
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Remote monitoring on MobaXterm
You can achieve this by enabling "Remote-monitoring(experimental)"
Settings -> Configuration -> SSH
Select "Remote-monitoring"
Click OK
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What does Monit do when it says 'initializing'?
Solved my monit initialization delay caused by a non-responsive SMTP mail server.
Commenting out these two lines in /etc/monit/monitrc were the isloated config change I applied to make my monit ...
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Show current ping to website on Taksbar
I know this is quite an old question. I'm currently using perfgraph - http://www.codefromthe70s.org/perfgraph3.aspx
It's free and it has more features than what you're looking for, the graph would ...
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How to monitor CPU-GPU temperature and load in Windows 10?
I keep both CPUID HW Monitor and TechPowerUp GPU-Z on my machine. HW Monitor I like that you can see current sensor information for Value as well as Min and Max values, all displayed side by side. ...
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What does "% IO" mean in iotop?
IO being short for Input/Output here. These are metrics of the maximum throughput the device can have, in both directions. At a certain point it's simply performing at it's maximum speed and cannot ...
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How to monitor events of process start and exit under Linux?
Yes, you can use top, which is a console program and there is KSysGuard (if your desktop environment is KDE), which is a GUI program.
If you are using GNOME - they have gnome-system-monitor, which is ...
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Lsof command in repeat mode no interval
If you dont have inotifywait installed, (which is ideal for this), then you can get closer to real-time if you combine lsof with watch:
$ watch -n0.1 lsof
This updates every 0.1 of a second.
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