May 7, 2019

Email alert ! when someone logs into your server as root

Server Management,

Email Alert: It’s very crucial to keep track of what is happening with servers and who logs into the server as far as the security of the server is concerned. Any user who gains root access can do whatever he wants. So its highly necessary to Setup an Email alert when something anonymous takes place.…

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October 23, 2017

6 Critical Steps to Follow in Case of a Server Hack

Server Management,

As the mansion gets Bigger, the number of windows for thieves to break in through, goes higher. This is exactly the case with the internet today. There has been a surge in the number of web languages, content management platforms and online applications, all for the benefit of you and me of course. But the…

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April 7, 2017

Five ways to optimize your Nginx server

Server Management,

Nginx is an open-source HTTP(web) server and reverse proxy, and an IMAP/POP3 proxy server (email server). It was developed to tackle the C10K problem that web servers in use at the time, which was largely Apache, were facing. C10K is simply a numeronym that stands for concurrently handling 10000 connections. Nginx was designed with the…

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August 3, 2012

MRTG Installation

Server Management,

MRTG INSTALLATION:   TASK 1: SNMP ConfigurationWhat is SNMP?Most routers and firewalls keep their operational statistics in Management Information Blocks (MIBs). Each statistic has an Object Identifier (OID) and can be remotely retrieved from the MIB via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). However, as a security measure, you need to know the SNMP password…

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March 16, 2010

Nagios Installation and Configuration

Server Management,

Nagios Installation in Ubuntu Required Packages Install the following packages on  Ubuntu before continuing. Apache 2 PHP GCC compiler and development libraries GD development libraries If not installed, using apt-get the above packages can be installed as follows sudo apt-get install apache2 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev Create…

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March 16, 2010

Nagios – An Introduction

Server Management,

What is Nagios? Nagios is a framework for setting up monitoring of hosts, services, and networks . What are the components of Nagios? nagios – the main server software and web scripts nagios-plugins – the common set of check scripts used to query services nagios-nrpe – Nagios Remote Plugin Executor nagios-nsca – Nagios Service Check…

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