Fail2ban

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This article contains instructions on installing and configuring fail2ban and also some useful tips for administering it.

Installing

  1. The fail2ban RPM is available from the EPEL package repository. Use the following instructions to make this package available to yum.
    • Download the EPEL repository install RPM:
      RHEL 5
      RHEL 6
    • Install the rpm:
      rpm -ivh epel-release-<version>.noarch.rpm
  2. Install fail2ban via yum:
    yum install fail2ban