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If you have a system or network connected to the Internet, you become a target. Your network is being scanned for vulnerabilities. This may happen only once a month or twice a day, regardless, there are people out there probing your network and systems for weaknesses. This documentation will show how you can protect yourself by installing an Intrusion Detection System with free available Software (Snort, PHP, MySQL, ACID) on a Linux Mandrake 9.2 System Read more and download the complete documentation here.

In “ordinary” proxying, the client specifies the hostname and port number of a proxy in his web browsing software. The browser then makes requests to the proxy, and the proxy forwards them to the origin servers. This is all fine, but sometimes one of several situations arises. Either • You want to force clients on your network to use the proxy, whether they want to or not. • You want clients to use a proxy, but don't want them to know they're being proxied. • You want clients to be proxied, but don't want to go to all the work of updating the settings in hundreds or thousands of web browsers. This is where transparent proxying comes in. Read more here.

Zabbix is (free of cost) software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the servers on that network. Zabbix is a useful tool for monitoring the health and integrity of servers. A flexible notification mechanism allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event, allowing fast reaction to server problems. All monitored parameters are stored in a database. Zabbix offers excellent reporting and data visualisation features based on the stored data, making Zabbix useful for capacity planning. Zabbix supports both polling and trapping. All Zabbix reports and statistics, as well as configuration parameters, are accessed through a web-based frontend. The web-based front end means that the health of your servers can be assessed from any location.Properly configured, Zabbix can play an important role in monitoring IT infrastructure for companies with even hundreds of servers to monitor. Read more about the Installation here.