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Wazuh is a free, open-source, powerful threat detection and integrity monitoring tool that helps organizations to detect intrusions, threats, and behavioral anomalies. It collects and analyzes the data gathered by the agent and visualizes event data through a web-based interface. It can be integrated with Kibana for visualization, Elasticsearch for data storage, and Filebeat for collecting Wazuh manager event data. It allows you to monitor hosts at the operating system and application levels to gain security visibility.

In this post, we will show you how to install a Wazuh server on Oracle Linux 8 server.

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AIDE, also called “Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment,” is a free and open-source file integrity monitoring tool for Linux-based systems. It monitors changes in your Linux system and notifies you of them via email. It uses several algorithms, including md5, sha1, rmd160, and tiger, to check file integrity. Generally, AIDE checks file permissions, inodes, modification time, file contents, user, group, file size, and more.

In this post, we will explain how to install and use AIDE on Oracle Linux 8.

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Metabase is a free, open-source, web-based database lookup tool. It can be integrated with any database and provides a graphical interface to run queries on the database. Metabase supports several databases such as MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, Mongo, SQL Server, Druid, H2, SQLite, and Oracle business. It is a powerful analytics tool that allows you to learn and make decisions from your company’s data without any technical knowledge required.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Metabase on Oracle Linux 8.

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Sphinx is a powerful documentation generator that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation. It is written in Python and supports several Output formats such as PDF, plain text, EPUB, TeX, manual pages, and more. Sphinx uses the reStructuredText markup language by default and can read MyST markdown via third-party extensions. It supports many languages, including Python, C, C++, JavaScript, mathematics, and many more.

In this post, we will show you how to install Sphinx-Doc on Oracle Linux 8.

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Node.js is a very powerful tool used to host JavaScript-based applications on the web. However, Node.js has some vulnerabilities that can cause performance-related issues. It does not work well with IO-bound operations or rapid traffic growth. In this case, you can use Apache as a reverse proxy to manage port contention and improve the Node.js performance.

In this post, we will explain how to configure Apache as a Reverse Proxy for Node.js applications on Oracle Linux 8.

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Osquery is a free and open-source tool that allows you to fetch operating system information for performance, security, and compliance audit analysis. It can be installed on all major operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Windows systems, etc. With Osquery, you can fetch all important system information, including running processes, loaded kernel modules, active user accounts, network connections, and more. It is used by the system administrators to troubleshoot performance and operational issues.

In this post, we will show you how to install Osquery on Oracle Linux 8.

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Neofetch is a free, open-source, command-line system information monitoring tool written in bash. It provides an easier way to fetch system information without installing additional software. With Neofetch, you can display various system information, including system model and manufacturer, operating system, kernel version, uptime, memory resources, disk usage, and more.

In this post, we will show you how to install Neofetch on Oracle Linux 8.

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