Monitoring

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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How To Monitor Server Health with Checkmk on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Server Health with Checkmk on Ubuntu 18.04

Checkmk is a monitoring solution that is both robust and simpler to install than many of its competitors. It is a self-contained software bundle that combines Nagios (a popular and open-source alerting service) with add-ons for gathering, monitoring, and graphing data. It also comes with Checkmk’s web interface — a comprehensive tool that addresses many of Nagios’s shortcomings. In this guide we will set up Checkmk and monitor two separate hosts: an Ubuntu 18.04 server and a CentOS 7 server.

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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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Installing and Configuring Graphite and Statsd on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Installing and Configuring Graphite and Statsd on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS

This tutorial will cover how to set up Graphite and Statsd on your server. Graphite is a graphing library that can be used to plot data-sets in a visually appealing way. Statsd is a program that can collect data on your system. When these programs are combined, you can generate useful graphs that describe the trends of your server.

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How To Install and Configure OSSEC on FreeBSD 10.1 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure OSSEC on FreeBSD 10.1

OSSEC is an open source, host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure OSSEC to monitor a cloud servers running FreeBSD 10.1.

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