Zabbix: monitoring your infrastructure – installation and configuration with Docker

In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up Zabbix with Docker to monitor your server and network infrastructure. For those who follow me regularly, I have long been a fan of PRTG for its “simplicity” but which has certain limits compared to Zabbix. I will come back to it in an article explaining …

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  Crowdsec: secure your web server network – installation and configuration

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to secure the network part of your web servers with Crowdsec. The tutorial is made on Ubuntu 20.04 Crowdsec overview Crowdsec is an open source tool that allows you to “secure” or rather add a layer of security to your Linux servers (soon Windows too) by …

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  Ansible: installation, configuration and use with Windows and Linux

Ansible is open source multi-platform configuration management software (Linux, Windows, network equipment, etc.). In other words, Ansible will allow you to manage, deploy or even execute actions on a group of computers in a “single command line”. Actions / configuration are written to a YAML format file also called playbook. Through this tutorial, I will …

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  Guacamole: manage access to your IT environment

In this tutorial, I will explain how to install Guacamole on Ubuntu, configure access to equipment and use it. Before starting the technique, I will first introduce you to Apache Guacamole and especially why to put it in place. What is Guacamole? No, I’m not going to talk about the avocado sauce recipe in this …

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GLPI 10: network inventory with GLPI Agent

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to set up network inventory in GLPI 10 with GLPI Agent. This is the functionality equivalent to network discovery and inventory with FusionInventory: Fusion Inventory: Configuring Discovery and Inventory Tasks – 247-IT Presentation of network inventory with GLPI Agent The network inventory allows you to discover …

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GLPI 10: configure automatic computer inventory with GLPI Agent

Introduction In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up automatic inventory in GLPI 10 with GLPI Agent. Before version 10 of GLPI, you had to go through a plugin (Fusioninventory or OCSInventory) to have automatic inventory in GLPI. Since this functionality is native to GLPI, if you are used to using FusionInventory, you …

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GLPI 10: installation

In this tutorial, I will explain how to install GLPI 10. Presentation of GLPI GLPI is the acronym for Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique, it is open source software written in PHP and which uses a MySQL or MariaDB database. GLPI is today published by the company Teclib which distributes GLPI under an Open Source …

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Ubuntu 22.04: install Docker

In this tutorial, I will show you a script to install Docker and Docker Compose on Ubuntu 22.04. Today more and more applications are available in containers with Docker, I regularly have to install a new machine on Ubuntu and have to install Docker and Docker Compose. Personally, I prefer to install Docker from the …

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Zabbix – monitor Docker

In this tutorial I will explain how to build a Docker server with Zabbix using agent 2. Zabbix agent2 allows you to monitor Docker without needing to add a template or plugin to the agent because it does it natively. Here is the official page : Docker monitoring and integration with Zabbix. My environment: Configuring …

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Nginx – GeoIP: configuration

In this new tutorial dedicated to Nginx, I will explain to you how to configure GeoIP in order to be able to set filters (restrictions) based on the country of your visitors. GeoIP will allow us to determine the country (see city) of a visitor based on their IP address, for this we will rely …

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Keycloak: deploy an identification manager with Docker

In this tutorial, I will explain how to deploy Keycloak with Docker. Keycloak Overview Before getting to the heart of the matter, I will present to you Keycloak. Keycloak is open source software, which allows you to set up a single sign-on SSO system that supports: If you know ADFS, Keycloak allows you to do …

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Docker: create a MariaDB or MySQL container

In this tutorial, I will explain how to create a MariaDB or MySQL container with Docker. Today, more and more applications are present in businesses and require a database. Previously, we often had a server dedicated to the MySQL or MariaDB database where all the databases coexisted on the same server and with the same …

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Zabbix: monitor a website

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to monitor a website using Zabbix. The supervision of Internet sites is done using Web scenarios and it is possible to add parameters for example if authentication is necessary, here we will simply keep it as simple as possible. With Zabbix here is the information you …

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