If you have deployed Zabbix Server on your Proxmox infra structure, you might be interested in hardening Zabbix installation with SSL certificates for the web frontend. You might also be interested in encrypting communication between Zabbix Server and the other Zabbix components, such as Agents and Proxies, after all, although it is just monitoring information,…
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Encrypting Zabbix Server communication with Agents using Pre-Shared Keys
If you have deployed Zabbix Server on your Proxmox infra structure, you might be interested in hardening Zabbix installation with SSL certificates for the web frontend. You might also be interested in encrypting communication between Zabbix Server and the other Zabbix components, such as Agents and Proxies, after all, although it is just monitoring information,…
Hardening Zabbix Server installation using Apache VirtualHosts and Let’s Encrypt certificates
In my previous post, we went through the process of installing Zabbix Server on a Debian LXC container. Although it works alright, it doesn’t come with HTTPS support out of the box. It also has an “ugly” /zabbix in the end of the URL. In this short post, we are going through the steps of…
Monitoring IT infrastructure with Zabbix server running on a Proxmox LXC container
After some time we accumulating VMs, containers, physical devices and keeping track of what is working as it should or not start to get challenging. Not rarely we start adding a bunch of homemade scripts to warns when some service dies, creating a management nightmare. This is where Zabbix comes to the rescue! According to…
Configuring E-mail client with Postfix on your Linux Ubuntu
Everytime we spawn a new server, it is a good idea to enable email services on it so that they can a means to reach us and notify of important events, such as software or hardware failures. In this post we are going to enable configure E-mail on Linux distros using postfix. I will use…
Setting up Intel GPU passthrough on Proxmox LXC containers
If you are a Proxmox Virtual Environment (aka PVE) user, chances are that you probably have a few LXC containers running on server. If that is indeed your case and you are interested in leveraging GPU hardware in them, this is for you! In this post, we are going to setup Intel GPU passthrough on…
Configuring E-mail alerts on your Proxmox Virtual Environment
In this post we are going to enable E-mail alerts for both our Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) and Proxmox Backup Server (PBS). The email server will be backed my GMail, which also works if you have Google Suite and a custom domain, such as yourdomain.com! Although I have separate PBS and PVE configuration in two…
How to setup NFS on Synology NAS for Proxmox Backup Server to use as Datastore
In this post we are going to configure a NFS share on our Synology NAS so that Proxmox Backup Server can use it as storage (aka Datastore) for all VMs and container backups. The first step is to configure NFS share on your Synology, then we need to mount the NFS share on the server…
How to setup Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) community repository
Recently I’ve discovered Proxmox and learned about its Community vs Enterprise versions. As I am just getting started with it, I don’t want to commit with a paid version, but who knows when I finally get the hang of it. If you think like me, this post will describe how to configure Proxmox PBS package…
How to setup Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) community repository
Recently I discovered Proxmox and learned about its Community vs Enterprise versions. As I am just getting started with it, I don’t want to commit with a paid version, but who knows when I finally get the hang of it. If you think like me, this post will describe how to configure Proxmox PVE package…