Installing Fail2ban

Fail2ban is a program that examines specific system logs in order to ban suspicious activity from IP addresses, which could potentially lead to a failure or attack. It searches for regular expressions declared in the *.conf files under the /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ folder. If a condition is matched, it will add the suspicious IP address to the Linux kernel's firewall (iptables) and block it after a certain number of retries and for a certain period of time, sending an e-mail address to the administrator. These actions are defined in the jail.conf file, which is situated in the /etc/fail2ban/ folder. Fail2ban and iptables come installed in Elastix by default. In case it is not installed, we can simply do it by typing yum -y install ...

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