LPI Linux Certification/Predict Future Resource Needs

Detailed Objectives (200.2)
(LPIC-1 Version 4.5)

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Description: Candidates should be able to monitor resource usage to predict future resource needs.

Key Knowledge Areas:
 * Use monitoring and measurement tools to monitor IT infrastructure usage.
 * Predict capacity break point of a configuration
 * Observe growth rate of capacity usage
 * Graph the trend of capacity usage
 * Awareness of monitoring solutions such as Icinga2, Nagios, collectd, MRTG and Cacti

The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
 * diagnose
 * predict growth
 * resource exhaustion