Review Questions
| 1: | What is the difference between proactive monitoring and reactive monitoring? |
| 2: | Why is port monitoring not an effective method to monitor a network service? |
| 3: | What line would you add to syslog.conf to send syslogs with a facility of kern and a level of info to the file /var/log/kern? |
| 4: | Why does it make sense to send both an email and a page to a system administrator when an outage is detected? |
| 5: | What are some of the benefits of having an external monitoring service? |
| 6: | Why is log rotation important? |
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