Tag: UFW Firewall

Blocking IP or whitelisting IP addresses with UFW

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Akshay Sunil

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Arch Linux, Debian, Firewall Rule, IP Blocked, Security, Ubuntu, UFW Firewall, whitelist

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UFW is the acronym for the Uncomplicated Firewall application used to administer your firewall rules on Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch Linux. As you proactively manage your firewall to avoid cyberattacks, blocking internet protocol (IP) addresses or whitelisting only those IPs allowed are two different firewall management approaches that can assist you. Regardless of the approach, all system administrators want to manage the incoming network traffic and firewall security to stop bad actors with harmful intentions.

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How to Install and Configure Zabbix on Ubuntu 20.04

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Dean Conally | Updated: August 21, 2023

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Account Management, Apache, Database, Database Zabbix, Firewall, Linux, Linux Server, Load, management, MariaDB, MariaDB Client, Monitoring, MySQL, PHP, PHP 7.2, Processes, Server, SSH, Tools, Top, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 20.04, UFW, UFW Firewall, Zabbix, Zabbix Administrator, Zabbix Agent, Zabbix Frontend, Zabbix Release, ZCat

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Introduction

Zabbix is an open-sourced tool used to monitor various IT components such as servers and hardware that they are running, cloud services, whole networks, etc. Zabbix can monitor the network health and integrity of your servers. All monitoring can be done through Zabbix’s web-based frontend. This means that you can quickly check the status of your servers from anywhere! This article describes how to install the Zabbix monitoring tool, create a database, and configure the frontend on Ubuntu 20.04.

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