ServerSetupFedora22

Immediate post install steps

1. sudo yum install etckeeper fail2ban

2. Disable root login via ssh
   1. Add TCP22/0 to IPTables
3. Enable sudo
4. yum remove unneeded software
5. yum update
6. Enable SElinux
7. Extend days of sysstat logging

Install rest of software

# yum install man screen wget strace rsync mailx fdupes logwatch grep lsof screen binutils tar mcelog nfs-utils \
OpenIPMI ipmitool sysstat clamav clamav-update nfs-utils iscsi-initiator-utils samba openvpn lldpad ntp \
php-pecl-apc lm_sensors hddtemp smartmontools apcupsd apcupsd-cgi 

Configure system, monitoring, mail, AV, and VPN

1. Configure GRUB serial console redirection
2. Configure kdump for system panics
3. Configure lm-sensors, hddtemp, lldpad, mcelog, and SMARTmon for temperature alerts.
4. Configure apcupsd for UPS alerts
5. Configure Time Server for local network access
   1. Add UDP123/24 to IPTables
6. Configure rsyslog for network clients
   1. Add UDP514/24 to IPTables
7. Setup mail relay
   1. Remove 127.0.0.1 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

   2. # echo drew > /root/.forward; echo "andrew: drew" >> /etc/aliases; newaliases; echo "root: drew" >> /etc/aliases; newaliases

   3. Add TCP25/0 to IPTables
8. Configure smartd/hddtemp for disk monitoring
9. ^ Configure thermal alerts for server
10. Configure logwatch
11. Setup clamav virus protection for Samba and weekly scan
12. Configure OpenVPN

Configure RAID and filesharing

1. Mount raid array
2. Configure md alerts
3. Enable NFS
   1. Add TCP2049/24 to IPTables
   2. Disable NFSv2/3 /etc/sysconfig/nfs
4. Enable samba
   1. Add TCP139,445/24 to IPTables

   2. # chkconfig smb on; chkconfig nmb on;

5. Enable iSCSI
   1. Add TCP3260/24
6. ^ Configure bacula and web interface

Setup cron jobs

1. Keep anacron from waking me up at night!

# vi /etc/anacrontab // START_HOURS_RANGE

Configure Web Services

1. Configure MythTV / MythWeb / minidlna
   1. Add TCP443/0 to IPTables
2. Configure pecl-php-apc / DrewWiki / WebDAV

Completing / Wrap-up

1. Verify all log files in /var/log are not giving any errors or notifications
2. Check logs for whats growing!

   # ls -alR /var/log | grep ^- | awk {'print $5" "$8'} | sort -k 2| sort -n

3. Create MondoRescue restore image