Articles by ovis

• Enhance Your Mail Server With ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy)

  Author: ovis • Tags: antivirus, postfix • Comments: 7

  Enhance Your Mail Server With ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) ASSP stands for Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy. The ASSP server project is an Open Source platform-independent transparent SMTP proxy server that leverages numerous methodologies and technologies to both rigidly and adaptively identify spam. In short ASSP is the most kickass solution that is both free and works great. It reduced spam to an absurd minimum for me.

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• Network Monitoring with Zabbix

  Author: ovis • Tags: monitoring • Comments: 12

  Network Monitoring With Zabbix Zabbix has the capability to monitor just a about any event on your network from network traffic to how many papers are left in your printer. It produces really cool grahps. In this howto we install software that has an agent and a server side. The goal is to end up with a setup that has a nice web interface that you can show off to your boss ;) It's a great open source tool that lets you know what's out there. This howto will not go into setting up the network but I might rewrite it one day so I really like your input on this. Much of what is covered here is in the online documentation however if you are like me new to this all this might be of some help to you.

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