RPM Package Manager (RPM)
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, and the like. There is also a library API, permitting advanced developers to manage such transactions from programming languages such as C or Python.
RPM is free software, released under the GNU GPL.
RPM is a core component of many Linux distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Fedora Project, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, CentOS, Mandriva Linux, and many others.
It is also used on many other operating systems as well, and the RPM format is part of the Linux Standard Base.
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cPHulk
cPHulk is a brute force protection system developped by the cPanel team and is exclusive to cPanel / WHM control panels. It has been integrated with cPanel version 11. With cPHulk, you can set a threshold for authentication attempts on services like POP3, cPanel, WHM, FTP, etc. After a certain amount of attempts, the attacker will no longer be able to authenticate
Enabling cPHulk is pretty easy. Simply log into your WHM control panel as root. From the main menu on the left, click on Security Center from the Security section. When you’re done, simply click on the Enable button at the top.
Click on the cPHulk Brute Force Detection link at the top of the page. Now you may want to configure cPHulk before you enable it. The configuration parameters are pretty much self-explanatory. Basically you set the number of failed attempts before an IP or an account is blocked and you set how long you want it to be blocked.
cPanel 11 marks the debut for the much anticipated cPHulk Protection system. cPHulk protects your vital services by disabling authentication to those services after a brute force attack is detected.
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Fantastico De Luxe
Fantastico De Luxe is the leading autoinstaller for cPanel servers.
With more than 10.000 installations, it provides more than one million end users the ability to quickly install dozens of the leading open source content management systems into their web space.It integrates with your cPanel and gives you the ability to install multiple instances (*) of any of these scripts.The scripts are listed below:
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The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application layer protocol that facilitates the exchange of management information between network devices. It is part of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol suite.Two versions of SNMP exist: SNMP version 1 (SNMPv1) and SNMP version 2 (SNMPv2). Both versions have a number of features in common, but SNMPv2 offers enhancements, such as additional protocol operations.
Components of SNMP
An SNMP-managed network consists of three key components: managed devices, agents, and network-management systems (NMSs). A managed device is a network node that contains an SNMP agent and that resides on a managed network. Managed devices collect and store management information and make this information available to NMSs using SNMP. Managed devices, sometimes called network elements, can be routers and access servers, switches and bridges, hubs, computer hosts, or printers. An agent is a network-management software module that resides in a managed device. An agent has local knowledge of management information and translates that information into a form compatible with SNMP.An NMS executes applications that monitor and control managed devices. NMSs provide the bulk of the processing and memory resources required for network management. One or more NMSs must exist on any managed network.
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AJAX AND ATLAS
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. AJAX is a type of programming made popular in 2005 by Google (with Google Suggest). AJAX is not a new programming language, but a new way to use existing standards. With AJAX you can create better, faster, and more user-friendly web applications. AJAX is based on JavaScript and HTTP requests. (more…)
