Monitoring

Understanding Suricata Signatures — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

Understanding Suricata Signatures

In this tutorial you’ll learn how Suricata signatures are structured, and some important options that are commonly used in most rules. Once you are familiar with how to understand the structure and fields in a signature, you’ll be able to write your own signatures that you can combine with a firewall to alert you about most suspicious traffic to your servers, without needing to use other external rulesets.

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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 Bacula-Web on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Bacula-Web on Ubuntu 14.04

Bacula-Web is a PHP web application that provides an easy way to view summaries and graphs of completed Bacula jobs. Although it doesn’t allow you to control Bacula in any way, Bacula-Web provides a graphical alternative to viewing jobs from the console. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Bacula-Web on an Ubuntu 14.04 server that has Bacula software already installed.

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How To Install Icinga and Icinga Web on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Icinga and Icinga Web on Ubuntu 16.04

Icinga is a flexible and powerful open-source monitoring system used to oversee the health of networked hosts and services. This tutorial will cover installing the Icinga core, its database backend, and the Icinga Web interface. Finally, we’ll set up email notification so you can receive alerts in your inbox when a service is misbehaving.

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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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