Unix® System Management Primer Plus

Chapter 6

1:	What is the difference between proactive monitoring and reactive monitoring?
A1:	Proactive monitoring examines statistics and trends of a service to look for warning signs of a potential service outage, enabling system administrators to prevent the problem from happening in the first place. Reactive monitoring watches for actual outage conditions, requiring system administrators to respond to an outage after it has occurred.
2:	Why is port monitoring not an effective method to monitor a network service?
A2:	Port monitoring verifies only that a service's port is accepting connections; it doesn't actually test the functionality of the service.
3:	What line would you add to syslog.conf to send syslogs with a facility of kern and a level ...