Proxmox: use the integrated Firewall to secure virtual machines

In this tutorial, we will see how to use the Firewall functionality integrated into Proxmox to secure virtual machines and manage network flows. Presentation of the firewall in Proxmox Proxmox allows you to manage a Firewall at the Hypervisor level which allows you to manage network flows at the levels: This configuration can be done …

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Proxmox: partition a disk

In this tutorial, I will explain how to partition a disk on Proxmox and then assign the partitions to storage. In this tutorial, you can see that I have two “disks” sda and sdb. In fact, these are two virtual disks created on a RAID 5 disk group on the server itself. The sda disk …

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Proxmox: configure a cluster with Ceph storage

In this tutorial, I will explain how to configure a cluster with Proxmox in order to ensure high availability and storage management will be with Ceph in order to have a Hyperconverged virtualization environment. Presentation Before launching into the tutorial, I will cover a few points for newbies. Let’s start with hyperconvergence, traditionally the Clustering …

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Postfix: configure a mail relay (MTA) on Ubuntu

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to install (it’s the easiest) and configure Postfix on Ubuntu as an email relay to send emails from applications, equipment (copier, switch, etc.). This type of server is often used in businesses to send emails from different equipment and software, even if you have an internal …

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Proxmox: installing a Hypervisor

In this tutorial, I will explain how to install Proxmox on a physical server. I used a DELL server and performed the installation through the iDRAC console. Regarding the configuration of the server, it has 2 CPUs, 32GB of RAM and 8 hard drives. The disk configuration is as follows: To get started, download Proxmox …

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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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Active Directory: retrieve the base DN (distinguishedName) attribute of an object

In this tutorial, I will explain how to retrieve the base DN also called distinguishedName in an Active Directory. This attribute is often used to configure LDAP/Active Directory bindings for applications. All Active Directory objects (Users, Computers, Organizational Unit, etc.) have the attribute: distinguishedName and this is unique. I say that the base DN attribute …

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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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Exchange 2016: Enable Extended Protection

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to activate extended protection (Exchange Extended Protection) on Exchange 2016 (and 2019 if you do not have CU14 which automatically activates it) which will allow you to protect yourself from CVE-2024 -21410. Exchange Extended Protection is in fact an enhanced security configuration for Exchange 2016 / …

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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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