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How to Configure DKIM, SPF, and DMARC on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure DKIM, SPF, and DMARC on RHEL 9

Email authentication through DKIM, SPF, and DMARC is no longer optional — major providers like Gmail and Outlook reject or junk messages from servers that lack these records. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) adds a cryptographic signature to outgoing messages, SPF (Sender Policy Framework) publishes a DNS record declaring which servers may send mail for your […]

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How to Install and Configure Dovecot IMAP Server on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Dovecot IMAP Server on RHEL 9

Dovecot is a fast, secure, and easy-to-configure IMAP and POP3 server that works seamlessly alongside Postfix on RHEL 9. Once Postfix is delivering incoming mail to a user’s Maildir, Dovecot allows mail clients such as Thunderbird or Outlook to retrieve those messages over IMAP or POP3 — with optional SSL/TLS encryption for both protocols. This […]

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How to Install and Configure Postfix Mail Server on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Postfix Mail Server on RHEL 9

Postfix is a high-performance, open-source Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) that handles the sending and receiving of email over SMTP. It is the default MTA on many Linux distributions and integrates cleanly with the rest of the RHEL 9 mail stack, including Dovecot for IMAP delivery and OpenDKIM for email authentication. This tutorial covers installing Postfix, […]

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How to Set Up a DNS Server with BIND9 on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a DNS Server with BIND9 on RHEL 9

BIND9 (Berkeley Internet Name Domain version 9) is the most widely deployed DNS server software in the world and is fully supported on RHEL 9 through the bind package. Running your own authoritative DNS server lets you resolve hostnames for domains you control without relying on a third-party provider. This tutorial covers installing BIND9, writing […]

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How to Configure a Static IP Address with NetworkManager on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure a Static IP Address with NetworkManager on RHEL 9

NetworkManager is the default network management service on RHEL 9, and it provides a powerful command-line tool called nmcli for configuring network interfaces. Assigning a static IP address is a common requirement for servers that need a predictable, stable address on the network. This tutorial walks through every method available on RHEL 9 to configure […]

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How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Uptime Kuma for Service Monitoring on RHEL 9

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted monitoring tool that provides a clean web dashboard for tracking uptime across HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, DNS records, Docker containers, and more. On RHEL 9, you can run it directly with Node.js and PM2 for process management, or deploy it instantly via Docker. This tutorial walks through both approaches, firewall […]

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How to Set Up Grafana Alerting and Notification Channels on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Grafana Alerting and Notification Channels on RHEL 9

Grafana Unified Alerting, introduced in Grafana 9 and enabled by default in Grafana 10+, provides a centralised alerting engine that works across all data sources and replaces the older per-panel Legacy Alerting system. On RHEL 9, configuring Grafana alerting correctly means setting up contact points for notification delivery, building a notification policy routing tree that […]

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How to Install Netdata on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Netdata on RHEL 9

Netdata is a lightweight, real-time performance monitoring agent that provides per-second metrics with zero configuration for hundreds of applications and services out of the box. Unlike traditional monitoring solutions that poll at 15- or 60-second intervals, Netdata collects data every second and renders interactive charts in its built-in web dashboard instantly. It is designed to […]

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How to Install and Configure AIDE on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure AIDE on RHEL 9

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is an open-source file integrity monitoring tool that detects unauthorized changes to files on a Linux system. It creates a cryptographic baseline database of your file system and compares the current state against that baseline on every check, alerting you to any additions, deletions, or modifications. AIDE is recommended by […]

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How to Use OpenSSL to Generate and Manage SSL Certificates on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use OpenSSL to Generate and Manage SSL Certificates on RHEL 9

OpenSSL is the most widely used toolkit for working with SSL/TLS certificates on Linux systems. On RHEL 9, it provides everything you need to generate private keys, create certificate signing requests (CSRs), sign certificates using your own certificate authority, and convert between certificate formats. Understanding OpenSSL is essential for any sysadmin managing secure services. This […]

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