Netware Troubleshooting 161 hostname or IP address of the computer running the SNMP management software. LINUX TOOLS The most common Linux tools that you should be aware of include the following: Ifconfig Used to configure the NICs installed in a Linux computer, as well as to view information about any configured interfaces. Dig Used to send name resolution queries to DNS servers to troubleshoot name resolution on a Linux-based client computer. Some of the available parameters are as follows: @server This parameter is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the computer you're querying for. -t type This parameter specifies the type of record you're looking for, like a Mail Exchanger record (MX) or Service record (SRV) record. -f filemane This parameter will allow dig to operate in batch mode, where it will perform multiple queries that it reads in from a text file. -p port This parameter will issue a DNS query on a nonstandard port.