The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is free software for monitoring and measuring the traffic load on network links. It allows the user to see traffic load on a network over time in graphical form. 1. Install MRTG apt-get install mrtg
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If you already have a central directory of users installed (AD or LDAP) you can configure most applications to use that directory instead of a local database for each application and make the user management much easier. Apache supports that so here are instructions on how to password protect a site or location using LDAP directory. In [...]
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The PowerDNS Nameserver is a modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver. It is written from scratch and conforms to all relevant DNS standards documents. Furthermore, PowerDNS interfaces with almost any database. This tutorial has been tested and is working on Debian etch and lenny 1. Install the PowerDNS server [...]
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Nikto is a web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3500 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 900 servers, and version specific problems on over 250 servers. 1. Add non-free archive to apt sources (pico /etc/apt/sources.list) deb [...]
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The PowerDNS Nameserver is a modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver. It is written from scratch and conforms to all relevant DNS standards documents. Furthermore, PowerDNS interfaces with almost any database. This tutorial has been tested to be working on Debian squeeze. It’s assumed that you are [...]
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Varnish is a great reverse proxy and very useful for load balancing. Here you can find a tutorial on installing Varnish: Installing and configuring Varnish HTTP accelerator. Munin is a network/system monitoring application that presents output in graphs through a web interface. If you haven’t installed it already, use this [...]
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rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of important files with known good ones in online database, searching for default directories (of rootkits), wrong permissions, hidden files, suspicious strings in kernel modules, and special tests [...]
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The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a standardized computer system interface used by system administrators to manage a computer system and monitor its operation. The development of this interface specification was led by Intel Corporation and is supported by more than two hundred computer systems vendors including [...]
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vsftpd is a secure, fast and stable FTP server. In this tutorial we’ll install the server allow local unix to access their home directories. 1. Install vsftpd apt-get install vsftpd
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Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. Dovecot primarily aims to be a lightweight, fast and easy to set up open source mailserver. It’s assumed that you have already installed and configured Postfix according to this tutorial: Installing Postfix with [...]
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