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Howto setup Asterisk behind NAT

This HOWTO assumes that your FreePBX system is sitting behind a NATed firewall with no direct connection to the outside world and it is NOT in the DMZ zone. If you have your system facing outside, or have used Mapped IP addresses or other techniques, then it is assumed that you have adequate knowledge to […]

Securing Asterisk IP-PBX with Fail2Ban

What is Fail2Ban? Any service that is exposed to the internet is susceptible to attacks from malicious parties. If your service requires authentication, illegitimate users and bots will attempt to break into your system by repeatedly trying to authenticate using different credentials. A common example of this is with SSH, which will be the subject […]

Update oVirt hosted-engine host certificates VM if the are expired

Environment: Red Hat Virtualization 4.4 Issue:  All the hosted-engine hosts vdsm certificates are expired. The hosted-engine VM is down and it’s unable to start it using hosted-engine –vm-start because of expired certificates. Resolution: Since CA of the RHV environment is the RHV manager which is down, we have to get the CA certificates and keys to the host […]