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In an absolute buying frenzy I rented a new server for my web services, gaming servers and so on. It was immediately clear that I again throw a proxmox hypervisor on it and since the new server is ...
Using HP Printer Color Laser MFP 17x Series under Archlinux
I bought a HP Printer Color Laser MFP 178nwg for my homeoffice in my new home. Using it under windows is not a problem. You just need to install the HP-Tools and then it should work. But on (arch/m...
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Article updated on: 05.01.2022 Zabbix, a very comprehensive monitoring system, which is a very nice alternative to the well-known monitoring systems Cacti and Nagios. In addition to extensive exis...
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I recently wrote a Flask web application in Python. When I put it online, I of course ran Nikto over it. Since I was immediately confronted with the usual suspects, I wanted to write down the solut...
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Monitoring Kubernetes cluster health with ZABBIX
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