A few days ago, I published a blog post on how one can quickly and easily setup a Synology NAS to act as a log receiver and store syslogs from remote CentOS servers. When I wrote the post, I hadn't planned to write a Part 2. But here we go! In this blog post, I will...
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Securely Collecting rsyslog Data onto Synology over TCP with SSL Encryption (from a CentOS Server)
If you are managing other servers, and are not exporting those server logs somewhere else, then you really should consider doing so. I won't try to make the case for why in this blog post. You can do your own research (this might be a good place to start). Synology's...
Fighting Spam: Block entire (T)TLD with Postfix
A Top-Level Domain (TLD) is at the highest level of the Domain Name System (DNS) structure. The domain .com is a TLD. So is .org, .net, and .biz. I've presented on DNS (and BIND) - you can click the link to view my PDF slides (and you can view a listing of all of my...
Monitoring Linux Systems with Nagios
17 February 2016 Nagios is extremely versatile, and can monitor just about anything. I first tasted Nagios when I worked as an Operations Intern for a Drupal services. In today's post, I'm going to share some of my accumulated knowledge in using Nagios to monitor the...
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