I need a CPU benchmark to test the performance impact of various power management policies. I must be able to set the load (e.g. to get a relatively steady load of 20%-30%-60%) and to simulate usage spikes (set frequency of spikes). I would also like it to be scriptable so as to be able to change benchmark settings in an indirect manner. I will be using Windows Server 2003.
What kind of cable shuold I use to connect two routers, straight or crossover?
On my hard-drive I have 2 partitions, on the first one I've installed Windows 2008 SP2 on the second Windows 2008 R2. Whenever I boot in R2 drive D shows up as C. How can I prevent this? (I want to boot in R2 and the first partition with SP2 to be C and the second partition with R2 to be D).
I am using Nagios for an energy efficiency project and workload balancing is a crucial aspect of the project. I am interested in how I can retrieve historical data from Nagios (e.g. CPU load for the past 10 minutes, memory usage for a process) and trends (e.g. CPU load increasing, decreasing). I am a beginner in regard to Nagios so any information about this subject would be helpful.
I am not interested in displaying the information in a graphical manner, I would like to use it in a custom application (Does Nagios have an interface -- web-service based or something else -- trough which to extract such data?).
Can you recommend any alternatives to Nagios, capable of monitoring both Linux and Windows computers and having an extensible architecture? I would like free products, but commercial ones could also be acceptable.
I am interested in monitoring CPU load, memory load, swapping, running processes, running services as I intend to use the software for performance monitoring. I would also like the monitoring plugins to be able to generate events when a certain threshold is exceed for a period of time and to pass data to external application (custom event handler functionality).
I do not know yet the deployment scenario, therefore having a relatively small footprint and being able to run on a regular computer with little performance impact is a plus (monitor just the host).
How can I disable Shift+Delete so that even if the key combination is used the files always get to the Recycle Bin?
I had a hdd failure and right now I'm reinstalling a new machine with MOSS and Project Server, in a farm configuration. All the databases of the former farm were on another machine that runs SQL Server. How can I set my new machine to use the existing databases and preserver all of my data?