Sunday 31 December 2023

How to Install Terraform on CentOS 8



Terraform is a free and opensource Infrastructure automation tool that allows to automate and manage IT infrastructure over cloud and on premises environments using codes.
This article describes, How to Install Terraform on - CentOS 8.

Thursday 2 November 2023

How to Install Cacti Monitoring Tool on CentOS 8 with LAMP Stack



Cacti is an open source and web-based network monitoring tool and provide graphical diagram of network real time performance. Cacti collect performance data from servers and network devices and store them for reporting and historical analysis with graphs.

Saturday 9 September 2023

How to Add Linux Host to NagiOS Monitoring Server - CentOS 8



NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) is a client-side plugin executor to communicate client statistic between server and client. Nagios plugins and NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) are available in EPEL Repository (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) for CentOS 8.

Tuesday 9 May 2023

How to Install Nagios Server 4.4.9 on CentOS 8



Nagios Core is free and open source widely used monitoring tool which can be used for monitoring Linux servers, Windows servers, Network devices and other applications. Nagios provides alerting services (SMS, Email etc.) for abnormal utilization and issues for Attributes CPU load, Memory usage, Disk usage, Logged in users, Running processes etc. and Services HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, POP3, SNMP etc. Nagios Core packages are not available in CentOS 8 base repository and it can be installed using EPEL repository.

Tuesday 21 March 2023

How to Install XRDP Remote Desktop on CentOS 9 Stream



XRDP is an Open-Source Remote Desktop Protocol Server, which is allowing users to take remote desktop of Linux Operating System from RDP clients. XRDP uses RSA Public Key and Private Key encryption to transfer data over the network.

How to install EPEL repository on CentOS 9 Stream



The EPEL repository is an additional package repository that provides useful software packages that are not included in the official CentOS 9 repositories and easy access to install packages for commonly used software.

Friday 17 February 2023

How to Install KSH (Korn Shell) Shell on CentOS 9 Stream



KSH (Korn Shell)is a shell programming language, which is upward compatible with “sh” (the Bourne Shell). KSH was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in 1980s. KSH is quite popular is loved by sysadmins to automate everyday tasks on Unix like operating systems. You can install ksh on CentOS 9 using its AppStream repository.

How to Install Gnome GUI on CentOS 9 Using DNF Group Install



CentOS 9 and many Linux distributions have options to install minimal, GUI and others and minimal installation restrict resource utilization. However, if minimal installation done while installation and GUI can be installed later.