Monitoring

How To Use Nmap to Scan for Open Ports — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Nmap to Scan for Open Ports

Nmap is a great tool for discovering the network services and ports that your server is exposing to the network. In this guide, we will discuss some basic information about networking ports and how you can use nmap to find your weaknesses.

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How To Install Munin on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Munin on an Ubuntu VPS

Munin is a helpful utility that provides a visual way to monitor a VPS. It is set up to be extremely plug and play. It can be installed very quickly through apt-get. We will be using Ubuntu 12.04 in this guide.

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How To Install and Secure Grafana on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure Grafana on Ubuntu 18.04

Grafana is an open-source data visualization and monitoring tool that integrates with complex data from sources like Prometheus, InfluxDB, Graphite, and ElasticSearch. In this tutorial, you will install Grafana and secure it with an SSL certificate and an Nginx reverse proxy. Once you have set up Grafana, you’ll have the option to configure user authentication through GitHub.

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How To Install the Munin Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install the Munin Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 14.04

Munin is a system, network, and infrastructure monitoring application that provides information in graphs through a web browser. It is designed around a client-server architecture and can be configured to monitor the machine it’s installed on (the _Munin master_) and any number of client machines, which in Munin parlance, are called _Munin nodes_.

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How to Install Linux Socket Monitor (LSM) on CentOS 6.4 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Linux Socket Monitor (LSM) on CentOS 6.4

In this article we will be looking at enhancing system security by increasing the level of monitoring performed. We are going to set up Linux Socket Monitor (LSM) which sends out alerts when a new socket / port is created, which is a potential signal of an intrusion by an unknown application taking over its host.

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An Introduction to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

SNMP, or simple network management protocol, is a standard internet protocol used to monitor remote servers, gather information, and even modify states and values on other hosts. Mostly leveraging a client-server model, the protocol is very mature and fairly ubiquitous across networked devices. In this guide, we will introduce you to some fundamental SNMP concepts and take a look at the protocol in broad strokes.

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