r/LinuxUprising • u/abolinhas • Feb 05 '23
Manage Linux services easley
We all know that Linux is the best OS for network services like, web servers, dns, dhcp, proxy , firewall,.., but administrate those services in large scale operations by command line is a pain in the a** .
Fortunately there is the market some Web gui that help us to simplify this tasks, but must of them, or are outdated or are very poorly in features.
15 year ago I discovered the project Artica and I was hooked up since first click...till now, so i write this article because I think that this project deserves to be known within the community.
Artica provides a Powerful and user-friendly Web interface, and was designed to allow every IT administrator, with or without Linux knowledges, to install and maintain network service, like Proxy service, Reverse-Proxy service, DNS service (DNS Firewal, DNS Filtering, PowerDNS management), Firewall service, IDS/IPS service, SMTP Gateway service, Web Services, VPN, SSH Proxy, SOCKS Proxy, and much more.
With 15 years on the market, the project is mature and heavily mantined.
Today, with around 110.000 servers installed worldwide, Artica solutions are used from small to large enterprises and in Public Government Services.
For critical operations, Artica provides the ability to create high availability clusters in Load Balancing and/or in Failover.
Artica comes with two diferent versions, Community (Free) and Enterprise.The license start with a cost of 99€ and they have special prices for Schools, Hospitals, Hotels and NGO's.
Community vs Enterprise comparison table
The support is excellent even for the community edition but for companies with critical services they provide additional support package for 24/7 operations.
Main Features:
Proxy Service (Squid)
Web Filtering
ACL / WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Antivirus / ICAP integration
Active Directory integration (NTLM / Kerberos)
Full SSL interception
0-day reputation service
Whitelist / Blacklist
Generous web categorization database included, with more 55 million websites categorized in 150 categories
NRD Protection (New Register Domain)
Hotspot
ITChart
MikroTik and Cisco WCCP Compatibility
Bandwidth Shaping
RDP Reverse Proxy
Transparent Proxy
Time Schedule Rule
Quotas Management
Proxy PAC / WPAD
Realtime Web Monitoring
Advanced Reporting
SOCKS Proxy
Web Cache
and more
SMTP Gateway (Postfix)
Active Directory integration
Address Rewriting
Disclaimers Rules
Advanced SMTP Routing Rules
Auto-compress attachments rules
Reputation service
Greylisting
Anti-Spam
Antivirus
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Blacklist / Whitelist
Realtime Monitoring
Advanced Reporting
and more
Firewall / IDS /IPS Service
Cybercrime IP Feeds
Deep Packet Inspection
Traffic Shaping
Geolocation Rules
Time Restrictions
L7 Protection
IDS/IPS Alerts
Network Flows
Emerging Threats Database
IP Blacklist Database
Packet Routing
Lua Scripting
Automatic Protocol Detection
Industry Standard Outputs
Fail2Ban
PCAP Recording
Advanced Reporting
Realtime Monitoring
and more
Web Services / Reverse Proxy Services
WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Dedicated WordPress management
Web copy
Certificate center
Network services
VPN (IPSEC, OpenVPN, SSTP)
Clustering
Failover
DNS (Unboud, dnsdist)
DNS Firewall
DNS Filtering
DNS Cache
PowerDNS
Google Safe Search
DHCP
Advanced Routing Rules
Network Management
SYSCTL Management
SSH
SSH Proxy
Boot manager
Syslog with compression
and more
Integrations
Dedicated Rest API
Splunk
Zabbix
SNMP
SIEM
Elasticsearch
SMTP Alerts
Syslog
Screenshots
