How Install the Nvidia driver in Unbuntu Lenova T520?

Recently I required to change my hard disk to a new lenova machine. I'm using ubuntu. And every thing works well after I change the hard disk, but I had a problem with my screen resolution. It was set to 4:3 and that was the maximum resolution available. It was really hard for me to work with that less resolution.

And found the reason was the driver for my display, Nvidia is not detected correctly so that I installed the Nvidia driver again in my Ubuntu machine.

The following are the steps I followed to install the Nvidia driver in my machine.

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates 

2. sudo apt-get update

3. sudo apt-get install nvidia-current 

After installing the driver, I restarted the machine and changed the resolution (Applications -> System Tools -> System Settings -> Displays) to 16:9, and solved the resolution problem :-)

Whats is WSO2 BAM 2.0..

WSO2 BAM is a fully open source Business Activity Monitoring. Recently WSO2 BAM 2.0 has been released which a complete revamp of WSO2 BAM 1.x.

It's targeted to monitor not-only WSO2 servers but also other third party servers and applications and Key performance Indicators (KPI) and also providing high scalable storage of data via Cassandra and high business data analytics capability through Apache Hive & Hadoop. Also it has very high performance of data capture by using thrift. WSO2 BAM is very scalable, such as you can scale individual components of BAM according to your requirement. If you need high performance for data storage you can only scale the Cassandra storage as multi-node cluster, and if you target to do more analytics in your captured data then you can scale and have a hadoop cluster which makes your analytics faster. WSO2 BAM also has attractive pluggable dashboards, where some of them are in-built by default and some of them are released by separate toolboxes.WSO2 BAM enables you to not only use the default dashboards but also you can write your own gadgets or visualizing engines to plug and view the data.

The below diagram shows the architecture of WSO BAM.

1. Event/Data Receiving
   You can publish any data to BAM via data agents. Already there are data agents available for WSO2 Servers in order to publish the Service Statistics Monitoring, and WSO2 ESB for Mediation Statistics Monitoring and Activity Mediation Monitoring. Similar to this you write a simple java application to publish your third-party events through thrift as described in http://wso2.org/library/articles/2012/07/creating-custom-agents-publish-events-bamcep. And also you can publish the events via REST api to BAM as described in http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/BAM200/REST+API.
   
   
2. Data Dumping in Cassandra
   After receiving the events/data in BAM, it immediately flush the data Cassandra database. Cassandra data base provides high scalability and it's very suitable to store huge amount of data with hight performance.
   
   
3. Running business analytics
   Analyzer framework consists of Apache Hive and Hadoop. Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop that facilitates easy data summarization, ad-hoc queries, and the analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop compatible file systems. Hive provides a mechanism to project structure onto this data and query the data using a SQL-like language called HiveQL. At the same time this language also allows traditional map/reduce programmers to plug in their custom mappers and reducers when it is inconvenient or inefficient to express this logic in HiveQL.

You can access the captured data which is stored in Cassandra and run the analytics on those data via writing the hive scripts. You can find sample hive scrips on WSO BAM samples in http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/BAM200/Samples. and more hive related queries can be found in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Tutorial.

4. Storing the result in JDBC storage
   After running the business analytics in you captured big data, you can store the summarized results in JDBC storage such as MySQL, H2 Database, Oracle, etc. This facilitates to plug any external reporting engine or preferred dashboard gadgets. In WSO2 BAM samples we have written the summarized data into H2 database as it's the default database used. You can find more details of writing the results in the JDBC storage in http://kasunweranga.blogspot.com/2012/06/jdbc-storage-handler-for-hive.html.

4. Visualization
   Visualization of the data done by WSO2 Jaggery Framework . This data also can be visualized via writing google gadgets also. You can see the sample gadgets created in WSO2 KPI Monitoring sample in http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/BAM200/KPI+Monitoring+Sample. And also there are dashboards which includes specially designed gadgets for Service statistics Monitoring and WSO2 ESB montitoring. 

There is already available reporting using the jasper reporting available in http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/BAM200/Reports.

These all phases of WSO2 BAM provides to privilege of monitoring your own data and visualize your business aspects.

Try out WSO2 BAM now http://wso2.com/products/business-activity-monitor/

Enjoy WSO2 BAM!! :)

BAM Toolboxes - Quick Deployment for your Scenario

I have written BAM toolboxes, which is an installable archive in WSO2 BAM. This provides you a quick deployment of your scenario in WSO2 BAM in few seconds.

WSO2 BAM has importantly three components,

1. Receiving Data/Events and Storage
   - This is the main interface which BAM interacts with other servers. That is you can use WSO2 servers/ any third part servers/application and send the events/data to BAM. I'll include how you can send events to BAM in a separate article.
2. Analytics
   - This component analyzes the data that is received in part-1, and produces some useful information out of your data. Apache Hive and hadoop are used in this segment to analyze the big data and scale according to the requirement.
3. Presentation
   There are attractive dashboards, gadgets, reports can be produced in this segment out of the data you have summarized in step-2.

In reality during the testing stage, you might be writing your own customized artifacts in all three above components. The toolbox provides you the flexibility of combining all three as a single artifact and install in WSO2 BAM, such that all the components as mentioned above can come in to the BAM within few seconds, rather manually setting up the environment in production setup.

And also WSO2 BAM will be continuously releasing new toolboxes which includes different use cases such that you can just install that in WSO2 BAM and try out.

You can see how you can install the toolboxes in WSO2 BAM inhttp://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/BAM200/Creating+a+Custom+Toolbox http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/BAM200/Introduction+to+BAM+Toolbox

And also you can find how you can create your own toolbox in,

http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/BAM200/Creating+a+Custom+Toolbox

WSO2 BAM 2.0 - New Begining ...

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WSO2 has released WSO2 BAM2.0 with WSO2 CARBON 4.0.1 release on September 8^th 2012.

The WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (WSO2 BAM) is an enterprise-ready, fully-open source, complete solution for aggregating, analyzing and presenting information about business activities. The aggregation refers to collection of data, analysis refers to manipulation of data in order to extract information, and presentation refers to representing this data visually or in other ways such as alerts. The WSO2 BAM architecture reflects this natural flow in its design.

Since all WSO2 products are based on the component-based WSO2 Carbon platform, WSO2 BAM is lean, lightweight and consists of only the required components for efficient functioning. It does not contain unnecessary bulk, unlike many over-bloated, proprietary solutions. WSO2 BAM comprises of only required modules to give the best of performance, scalability and customizability, allowing businesses to achieve time-effective results for their solutions without sacrificing performance or the ability to scale.

The product is available for download at: http://wso2.com/products/business-activity-monitor

The documentation is available at: http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/BAM200/WSO2+Business+Activity+Monitor+Documentation

BAM 2.0 has monitoring services, by using the Service Statistics Toolbox found in http://wso2.com/products/business-activity-monitor/2-0-0-toolboxes/. Via this you can monitor request, response, fault count, response time, etc for a hosted services.

WSO2 BAM 2.0.1 which includes attractive dashboards for WSO2 ESB monitoring will be released soon.