RHEL 8

How to Set Up NFS File Sharing on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up NFS File Sharing on RHEL 8

Network File System (NFS) is a distributed filesystem protocol that allows RHEL 8 servers to export directories over the network so that client machines can mount and use them as if they were local storage. NFS is a cornerstone of Linux infrastructure, used in everything from home lab setups to large-scale HPC clusters and virtualization […]

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How to Configure LVM on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure LVM on RHEL 8

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a flexible disk management system that allows you to create, resize, and manage storage volumes on RHEL 8 without the limitations of traditional partitioning. By abstracting physical disks into logical volumes, LVM lets you grow or shrink filesystems on the fly, take point-in-time snapshots, and pool multiple disks into a […]

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How to Set Up Checksum Monitoring with AIDE on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Checksum Monitoring with AIDE on RHEL 8

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a host-based intrusion detection tool that builds a cryptographic baseline of your filesystem and alerts you whenever files are added, removed, or modified. On RHEL 8 it is available in the base repositories and integrates cleanly with cron and email for automated daily checks. Unlike network-based intrusion detection, AIDE […]

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How to Monitor Nginx Access Logs with GoAccess on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Nginx Access Logs with GoAccess on RHEL 8

GoAccess is an open-source, real-time web log analyzer that generates interactive HTML reports and live terminal dashboards directly from Nginx access logs. It requires no database, no JavaScript framework, and no persistent service — a single command can parse millions of log entries in seconds. On RHEL 8 the package is available from the EPEL […]

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How to Configure auditd for Security Event Logging on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure auditd for Security Event Logging on RHEL 8

The Linux Audit daemon (auditd) ships enabled by default on RHEL 8 and provides a kernel-level event logging subsystem capable of recording file access, system calls, user logins, and privilege escalation. Unlike application-level logging, audit records are written directly by the kernel and are tamper-evident, making them suitable for compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, […]

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How to Install VictoriaMetrics as a Prometheus Alternative on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install VictoriaMetrics as a Prometheus Alternative on RHEL 8

VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-efficient time-series database designed as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus storage. It supports the full Prometheus remote_write protocol, exposes its own MetricsQL query language (fully compatible with PromQL), and operates as a single binary with no external dependencies. On RHEL 8, the installation takes under five minutes and the memory footprint […]

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How to Set Up Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack Integration on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack Integration on RHEL 8

Alertmanager handles alert routing, deduplication, and notification dispatch for Prometheus. By integrating it with Slack and PagerDuty, your team receives real-time notifications through familiar channels while on-call engineers get paged for critical incidents. This tutorial walks through installing Alertmanager on RHEL 8, configuring receivers for both platforms, setting up routing logic, and verifying the setup […]

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How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 8

cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is an open-source daemon from Google that collects, aggregates, and exports real-time resource usage and performance metrics for every running container on a host. Unlike Node Exporter, which reports host-level statistics, cAdvisor descends into cgroup hierarchies to expose per-container CPU, memory, network, and filesystem metrics in Prometheus format. On RHEL 8 with […]

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How to Build Grafana Dashboards for Linux Server Metrics on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Build Grafana Dashboards for Linux Server Metrics on RHEL 8

Grafana transforms raw Prometheus time-series data into actionable visual dashboards through a drag-and-drop interface backed by the powerful PromQL query language. On RHEL 8 with Prometheus and Node Exporter already collecting host metrics, you can build a professional server monitoring dashboard in under an hour — displaying CPU usage, memory consumption, disk I/O, and network […]

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How to Configure SNMP Monitoring on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SNMP Monitoring on RHEL 8

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) remains the dominant standard for monitoring network devices, switches, routers, and hardware appliances that do not expose Prometheus endpoints. On RHEL 8, the net-snmp package provides both the daemon and a suite of command-line tools for querying and testing SNMP agents. This tutorial covers installing and configuring the SNMP daemon, […]

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