Category: Administration

How we created the dream Service Desk

You may have heard the phrase, "the older the product, the more functional it becomes." In today's age of advanced technology, web development, and SaaS models, this assertion rarely holds true. The key to successful development lies in constant market monitoring, tracking customer demands and requirements, and being ready to act on important feedback today, pull it into the backlog this evening, and begin development tomorrow. This is how we […]

Certificate Expiration Monitoring in Windows on NetXMS

Recently, we faced the task of monitoring the expiration dates of certificates on Windows servers. Well, it arose after the certificates turned into pumpkins several times, at the very moment when the colleague responsible for their renewal was on vacation. After that, we began to suspect something and decided to think about it. Since we did not […]

New build of Nemesida WAF Free for NGINX

Last year, we released Nemesida WAF Free — a dynamic module for NGINX that blocks attacks on web applications. Unlike the commercial version, which is based on machine learning, the free version analyzes requests only using a signature-based method. Features of the release Nemesida WAF 4.0.129 Until the current release, the Nemesida WAF dynamic module supported only Nginx Stable 1.12, 1.14, and 1.16. In […]

Updated version of SAP Business One 9.3: what has changed

Hello, Habr! We continue the series of publications about SAP Business One – ERP for small and medium-sized businesses. This time we will look at the new version of the product. According to the roadmap, along with quarterly updates to the current version, every 1.5 years SAP releases a new version of SAP Business One. Before launching SAP Business One 9.3, SAP Business One partners initiated pilot projects […]

FusionPBX and ACL

My article is not a full description of the product, but rather a brief clarification of the good publication "FusionPBX, or Here We Go Again, FreeSWITCH." I feel that the topic of ACL in FusionPBX is not very well covered in it. I will try to fill this gap based on my own experience working with FreeSWITCH/FusionPBX. So, we have installed FusionPBX with registered internal number 1010 in the domain domain.local and configured […]

ISPsystem, goodbye! Why and how we created our own server management panel

Hello! We are "Hosting Technologies" and five years ago we launched VDSina — the first VDS hosting specifically created for developers. We strive to make it as convenient as DigitalOcean, but with Russian support, payment methods, and servers located in Russia. However, DigitalOcean offers not only reliability and price but also service. Software from ISPsystem turned out to be the rope that tied us […]

Bitrix and updating MariaDB to the latest stable version

Good day, respected Habr readers! Allow me to introduce myself, I am Alexander. A system administrator at a small but proud web studio. We really want everything to work quickly, safely, and with up-to-date software. To achieve this, we even set up a nagios+PhantomJS bundle on the in-office computer and check page load speeds every 30 minutes. As part of our service agreement, we also monitor 1C-Bitrix updates and regularly […]

5 open-source security event management systems

What distinguishes a good security professional in the IT field from an ordinary one? No, it's not that at any moment he can recall from memory the number of messages that manager Igor sent to colleague Maria yesterday. A good security professional seeks to identify potential violations in advance and catch them in real-time, making every effort to prevent the incident from escalating. Security event management systems […]

Secure Update of Zimbra Collaboration Suite

It has happened that system administrators are always wary of anything new. Literally everything, from new server platforms to software updates, is received with caution until there is practical experience and positive feedback from colleagues at other companies. This is understandable, as when you literally depend on it with your life […]

Research: Linux is Still the Most Popular OS in the Cloud

We discuss the statistics of foreign IaaS providers, provide figures on our cloud, and talk about the reasons that have influenced the widespread adoption of open-source operating systems. Photo — Ian Parker — Unsplash Distribution of Shares According to IDC, in 2017, 68% of in-house and cloud enterprise servers were managed by Linux. Since then, this figure has increased — this […]

Why one of the largest IT companies joined the CNCF — the foundation developing cloud infrastructure

A month ago, Apple became a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Let's explore what this means. Photo by Moritz Kindler - Unsplash Why CNCF The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) supports the Linux Foundation. Its goal is the development and promotion of cloud technologies. The Foundation was established in 2015 by major IaaS and SaaS providers, IT companies, and network hardware manufacturers such as Google, Red […]

How to build, deploy, and test Waves RIDE dApp

Hello! In this article, I will show you how to write and run a simple dApp on the Waves node. We will look at the necessary tools, methods, and an example of development. The development scheme for dApps is almost identical to that of regular applications: Write the code Write automated tests Launch the application Test it Tools 1. Docker for running the node and Waves Explorer If you do not want to run the node, you can skip this […]

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