Howto- Disable SELinux on Fedora/Centos/RHEL/SL

 Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux feature that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, through the use of Linux Security Modules (LSM) in the Linux kernel. It is a set of Kernel modifications and user-space tools that can be added to various Linux distributions. Its architecture strives to separate enforcement of security decisions from the security policy itself and streamlines the volume of software charged with security policy enforcement .

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How to install Nagios from repo Fedora/Centos/SL

Nagios  is  one of  the most  powerful  open source  monitoring tool,  its  giving  the opportunity for monitoring  all OS and  devices ,   in our previous posts, we did show you how to install Nagios from source in Fedora and CentOS,  today we will see how to install  it directly  from yum in Fedora/Centos/SL(Scientific Linux) in easy steps.

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Install nomachine in RHEL/centos/Fedora

Nomachine or NX technology is a computer program that handles remote X Window System connections, and attempts to greatly improve on the NoMachineperformance of the native X display protocol to the point that it can be usable over a slow link such as a dial-up modem. It wraps remote connections in SSH sessions for encryption.

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Howto- Configuring BIND master and slave DNS servers

DNS (Domain name system) servers are one of the most crucial parts of hosting servers on the internet. DNS servers give us the ability to connect to websitesterminal and other types of servers by using words and number instead of IP addresses. Without DNS servers users visiting a website would have to connect using its IP address (say for example http://88.192.77.211 instead of http://www.unixmen.org). It can be somewhat hard for people to remember IPv4 addresses this becomes even more apparent with many web servers switching to IPv6. I don’t know many people that could easily remember a 32 digit address of each website they visit.

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Install Nagios Entreprise XI RHEL/Centos/SL

Nagios XI is the most powerful IT infrastructure monitoring solution on the market. Nagios XI extends on proven, enterprise-class Open Source components to deliver thenagios_logo best monitoring solution for today’s demanding organizational requirements.

Designed for scalability and flexibility, XI is designed to make problematic IT monitoring tasks simple, while retaining the powerful attributes of its enterprise-class foundation blocks.

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What is new on the Red Hat 5.7 Beta?

Following the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 6.1, the beta version of the RHEL 5.7 is now available. Although, not a major release, this is a vital updatered_hat_logo_big as most of RHEL user-base is yet on the RHEL 5. With the RHEL 6 proving to be a worthy release, 5.7 Beta offers greater features as part of the RHEL 5 life cycle.

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