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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on CentOS 7

Metricbeat, the replacement for Topbeat, is a lightweight data shipper that collects CPU and memory statistics from a server and sends the data directly to your Elasticsearch deployment. In this tutorial, you will use Metricbeat to forward local system metrics like CPU/memory/disk usage and network utilization from a CentOS 7 server to another server of the same kind with the Elastic Stack installed.

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How To Harden OpenSSH Client on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Harden OpenSSH Client on Ubuntu 20.04

When hardening SSH at the server side, the primary objective is to make it harder for malicious actors to access your server. However, hardening at the client side is very different, as instead you are working to defend and protect your SSH connection and client from various different threats. In this tutorial, you will harden your Ubuntu 20.04 OpenSSH client in order to help ensure that outgoing SSH connections are as secure as possible.

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How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website Using Cloudflare and Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial you will secure your website served by Nginx with an Origin CA certificate from Cloudflare and configure Nginx to use authenticated pull requests. The advantages of using this setup are that you benefit from Cloudflare’s CDN and fast DNS resolution while ensuring that all connections pass through Cloudflare. This prevents any malicious requests from reaching your server.

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How To Host a Website with Caddy on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website with Caddy on Ubuntu 22.04

Caddy is a web server designed around simplicity and security that comes with a number of features that are useful for hosting websites. In this tutorial, you’ll build Caddy from source and use it to host a website secured with HTTPS.

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How To Install an ERPNext Stack on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install an ERPNext Stack on Ubuntu 20.04

ERPNext is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite that leverages the power and flexibility of open-source technologies. It excels at managing core business processes such as finance, sales, HR, manufacturing, purchases, services, helpdesk, and more.

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How To Install and Configure an SNMP Daemon and Client on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure an SNMP Daemon and Client on Ubuntu 18.04

SNMP stands for simple network management protocol. It is a way that servers can share information about their current state, and also a channel through which an administer can modify pre-defined values. In this guide, you will set up the tools to communicate using SNMP. You will be using two Ubuntu 18.04 servers to demonstrate, one that will contain the SNMP manager (client), and one to hold the SNMP agent (daemon).

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