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Top 5 IT Tools as of August 5th
Optimize Your Systems Using Performance Co-Pilot
As we kick off this edition, it’s important to focus on the tools that support sysadmins in their everyday tasks. One tool that truly stands out is Performance Co-Pilot. Performance Co-Pilot is an indispensable tool for sysadmins, offering comprehensive performance monitoring across systems, enabling efficient data collection, analysis, and centralized management of diverse application metrics.
A Backup Tool to Revolutionize Data Protection
Pika Backup simplifies data protection for sysadmins, effortlessly back up files, schedule regular backups, save space, encrypt data, and easily recover specific files. It is crucial to mention that BorgBackup powers it.
Gain Insights into DNS Traffic with dnstop
dnstop is a versatile libpcap application that monitors DNS traffic on your network, displaying comprehensive tables of source and destination IPs, query types, and response codes, while also supporting filters for undesirable queries and both IPv4 and IPv6.
Make Shell Scripts Interactive with Whiptail
Whiptail is a powerful command-line utility designed to create text-based user interfaces in shell scripts, enabling you to build interactive menus and dialog boxes effortlessly. As a lightweight yet effective alternative to the dialog utility, Whiptail is widely utilized in Debian and its derivatives. It offers support for various box types, including message boxes, input boxes, yes/no boxes, and menu boxes, enhancing the user-friendliness of shell scripts and elevating the overall user experience.
A Tool to Transform Your DevOps Processes
To conclude this edition, we present Semaphore UI. It offers DevOps teams a modern, intuitive interface for managing Ansible, Terraform, and more, providing reliable automation, project isolation, and robust access control that improve productivity and security.
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Learn and Test DMARC is an essential console that empowers you to fully grasp DMARC by showcasing the background communication between servers during the validation process of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC as emails are delivered. It also allows you to test and optimize your email performance effectively.
Certify the Web assists you to effortlessly manage, install, and auto-renew free SSL/TLS certificates from letsencrypt.org and other ACME certificate authorities for your IIS Windows and various other services. If you’re not a fan of Linux, this solution is perfect for you. It features robust workflows for a wide range of Windows software, including Exchange, where you can confidently transition away from paid certificates for your hybrid servers.
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