Topic 10

Operating system tools

ifconfig

ifconfig is a tool used within Linux operating systems to view the Network settings of the device. An example of usage is to check the IP and MAC address of the computer.

ipconfig

ipconfig is a tool used within Windows operating systems to view the Network settings of the device. An example of usage is to check the IP and MAC address of the computer.

SSH

(using the OpenSSH client and Server) is used within all operating systems to allow for secured remote connections to the device for configuration and/or control for when the device cannot be accessed physically.

dstat

is a tool used to monitor disk performance, as well as the performance of the memory and network.

slurm

is a tool to monitor network interface bandwidth.

who

is a tool used to display information relating to all users currently logged in.

ps

is a utility that provides virtual memory and CPU information on each active process submitted from the user account.

iostat

is a utility that returns information about I/O status. It lists statistics on current I/O activity for each disk device and system CPU utilisation percentages.

vmstat

is a utility that returns virtual memory status information, including process states and paging activity.

findmnt

is a utility used to find mount file systems. It is also used to list mount devices and can also mount or unmount devices when required.

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