Monitoring

How To Use Icinga To Monitor Your Servers and Services On Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Icinga To Monitor Your Servers and Services On Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of Icinga, an open source monitoring system, on Ubuntu 14.04. We will cover some basic configuration, so you will be able to monitor network services and host resources via the web interface. We will also utilize the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE), that will be installed as an agent on remote systems to monitor their local resources (disk usage, number of logged in users, etc.).

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3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime

As businesses and other organizations increasingly depend on internet-based services, attention is being focused on creating reliable infrastructure that minimizes costly downtime. In this article, we will discuss three areas where improvements could lead to less downtime for your organization. These areas are monitoring and alerting, software deployments, and high availability.

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How To Monitor Hosts and Services with Icinga on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Hosts and Services with Icinga on Ubuntu 16.04

Icinga is an open-source monitoring system used to monitor the health of networked hosts and services. In this tutorial we will use Icinga to set up two different kinds of monitoring configurations, remote service checks and the Icinga agent-based “Top Down Command Endpoint” mode.

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How Fail2Ban Works to Protect Services on a Linux Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How Fail2Ban Works to Protect Services on a Linux Server

Fail2ban is a daemon that can be used to monitor the logs of services and ban clients that repeatedly fail authentication checks. It is a great tool to help protect against brute force attacks and malicious users. In this guide, we’ll discuss how fail2ban works and how you can leverage its configuration structure to modify or extend its functionality.

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