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How to Configure DKIM, SPF and DMARC on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure DKIM, SPF and DMARC on RHEL 7

How to Configure DKIM, SPF and DMARC on RHEL 7 Email authentication standards — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC — are essential for any mail server that sends outbound email. Without them, your messages are likely to be rejected or placed in spam folders by major providers such as Gmail, Microsoft 365, and Yahoo. SPF (Sender […]

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How to Install and Configure Dovecot IMAP Server on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Dovecot IMAP Server on RHEL 7

How to Install and Configure Dovecot IMAP Server on RHEL 7 Dovecot is a secure, high-performance IMAP and POP3 server that integrates seamlessly with Postfix on RHEL 7. While Postfix handles the transport of mail (sending and receiving via SMTP), Dovecot provides the retrieval layer — allowing mail clients such as Thunderbird, Outlook, or Apple […]

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How to Install and Configure Postfix Mail Server on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Postfix Mail Server on RHEL 7

How to Install and Configure Postfix Mail Server on RHEL 7 Postfix is a high-performance, security-focused Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) that is installed by default on many RHEL 7 systems. It handles the sending, receiving, and routing of email using the SMTP protocol. Whether you are setting up a server to send application alerts, relay […]

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How to Set Up Checksum Monitoring with AIDE on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Checksum Monitoring with AIDE on RHEL 7

File integrity monitoring is a cornerstone of host-based intrusion detection. AIDE — Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment — creates a cryptographic baseline of your file system and compares the current state against that baseline to detect unauthorized changes. When an attacker modifies a system binary, alters a configuration file, or installs a rootkit, AIDE reports exactly […]

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How to Use Prometheus Blackbox Exporter for Endpoint Monitoring on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Prometheus Blackbox Exporter for Endpoint Monitoring on RHEL 7

How to Use Prometheus Blackbox Exporter for Endpoint Monitoring on RHEL 7 The Prometheus Blackbox Exporter probes external endpoints over HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, ICMP, and DNS from the perspective of an outside caller, making it an essential complement to node-level metrics collected by Node Exporter. While Node Exporter tells you about CPU load and memory […]

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How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring on RHEL 7

How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring on RHEL 7 Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted, open-source uptime monitoring tool that provides a clean web interface for tracking the availability of HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, DNS records, and more. It supports multiple notification channels including email, Slack, and Telegram, and includes a built-in public […]

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How to Install and Configure Nagios Core on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Nagios Core on RHEL 7

How to Install and Configure Nagios Core on RHEL 7 Nagios Core is one of the most widely deployed open-source infrastructure monitoring systems in the world. It provides comprehensive monitoring of hosts, services, and network devices, alerting administrators when things go wrong and when they recover. On RHEL 7, setting up Nagios Core from source […]

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How to Set Up Grafana Alerting and Notification Channels on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Grafana Alerting and Notification Channels on RHEL 7

How to Set Up Grafana Alerting and Notification Channels on RHEL 7 Grafana’s alerting system transforms your monitoring dashboards from a passive display into an active early-warning network. When a metric crosses a threshold — CPU saturation, disk exhaustion, an elevated error rate — Grafana fires an alert and routes a notification to whichever channels […]

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How to Install Netdata on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Netdata on RHEL 7

How to Install Netdata on RHEL 7 Netdata is a real-time performance monitoring agent that delivers per-second metrics with zero configuration on most Linux systems. Unlike heavier monitoring solutions that scrape on 15-second or 1-minute intervals, Netdata collects and stores data every second, making it ideal for diagnosing transient performance problems that would be invisible […]

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How to Set Up Tripwire for File Integrity Monitoring on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Tripwire for File Integrity Monitoring on RHEL 7

How to Set Up Tripwire for File Integrity Monitoring on RHEL 7 File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is the practice of detecting unauthorised changes to critical system files, configuration files, and binaries. When an attacker compromises a system, they often modify files to install backdoors, alter logging behaviour, or escalate privileges. Tripwire creates a cryptographic baseline […]

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