System

Technical Support

• How to query the Artica Tech support team.
  Whether you are in community mode or have an Enterprise license, you can request support from the Artica tech technical team.

Security

• Artica Appliance Security compliance:  Strategic tips to ensure a minimum of safety with Artica platforms

Performance

• Tune your Kernel for Proxy/Gateway
  By automatically adjusting key network parameters, Artica enhances overall throughput, reduces latency, and ensures better handling of high-concurrency environments

Users Management

Artica provides a unified interface for managing both local system user accounts and LDAP-backed virtual users, allowing administrators to centrally control authentication and directory services.

• Manage system accounts
  System users enable access to the Artica server via SSH or console. 
  Through the web interface, you have tools to create users and groups and to grant execution privileges using sudo.

System Update

• Windows Updates
  Manage the Artica update listener, approved content cache and traffic statistics.
  Includes pilot client configuration and current limitations.
• ActiveDebianSync
  Service for automatic, incremental synchronization of Debian repositories, featuring a built-in HTTP/HTTPS server and a monitoring REST API.

Time and Clock

• Time and Clock: Set the time of your server

System

• The System/unix console: 
  The Boot menu and the Artica Unix console
• The Web Console: 
  Settings to tune/manage the Artica Web Console
• Factory reset: 
  Appliance 's factory reset using the  the web console
• The Artica REST API service:  
  As for 4.50+ the Rest API service is a major component of the Artica system.
• Artica maintenance: 
  Maintain Artica Core software and CVE updates status
• How to get the current kernel version ?
• Hard disks management with Artica: 
  Manage the hard disks connected to the system.
• The Artica HTTP Client: 
  The Artica Client HTTP is in charge of update the Artica system and softwares
• Change the machine host name: 
  How to Change the machine host name ?
• Kernel panic  - not syncing: 
  no working init found
• Error opening terminal: linux and INIT: cannot execute /etc/init.d/rc at boot
  The server loops on Error opening terminal: 
  linux and stops on INIT: cannot execute /etc/init.d/rc. 
  How to boot again with systemd.
• SMBus Host Controller not enabled!!: 
  Why this error on startup ?
• The NMI watchdog: 
  Detects System Hangs and Deadlocks

Monitoring

• Artica Incident Reporting
  Artica automatically generates an incident report whenever an issue is detected during service operation.
  This report captures critical information such as system state, error logs, network statistics, and other relevant metrics at the time of the incident.
   
• Artica Monitoring: 
  Artica Monitoring is a feature that provides you with the necessary tools to monitor your IT infrastructure..
   
• Connection tracking
  Artica can show you, in real time and over time, every network connection the appliance currently knows about:
   
• Filbeat on Artica
  Filebeat is a lightweight and efficient log shipper designed to collect and centralize log data.
  Running as an agent on your Artica servers, it continuously monitors the log files or directories you define, captures new log events in real time, and forwards them to Elasticsearch for indexing and analysis.
   
• Process Memory Monitoring: 
  Sometimes it’s important to know which process is consuming your server’s memory.
   
• OOM-Killer monitor: 
  Out-Of-Memory Killer, and it's a safety mechanism built into the Linux kernel.
   
• Reducing Disk Cache Aggressiveness in Proxmox VMs
  Proxmox reports memory usage as Total - Free, which includes Linux disk cache

System SWAP

• Alert on memory SWAP: 
  If you have a SWAP memory alert, here's how to clear the cache memory
   
• Criteria for SWAP usage.
  Controls the balance between reclaiming file cache versus swapping out process memory.
   
• Remove SWAP partitions from system disk.
  This operation removes SWAP partitions from the system partition.
  You can recreate SWAP partitions later, but they will be detached from the system disk.
   

Network Services

• DNS Services: Create DNS service for your users with Artica
• Reputation Client*: Check source clients' TCP/IP address reputation using DNS/DoH*
• OpenSSH Server: Access to your Artica appliance using SSH
• Network*: Manage the network settings and routing on your Artica server*
• Network REST APIs: Modify or query the API Web service on the network theme
• The FTP protocol and Artica: Topics about how Artica handle the FTP protocol

Notifications 

• SMTP notification service: 
  How to be notified by mail
   
• Notifications via Mattermost
  If you already have a Mattermost server, you can configure Artica to post notifications to a channel.

Local services

• Systemd: Verify the presence of systemd
• Error opening terminal: linux: The server boots with sysvinit and stops on INIT: cannot execute /etc/init.d/rc
• Optimizations: How to optimize your Artica server
• Certificate Center: How to store and generate certificates
• Features: Section How to install and remove software
• New UUID: Generate a new unique identifier

Hard Disks

• Hard Drives Management: How to manage the system hard drives
• EXT4-fs error: htree_dirblock_to_tree: * Directory block failed checksum
• Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to Mount root fs on unknown-block(@, 0)

Backup/Cluster

• Cluster v2: The new generation of Clustering Artica servers
• Backup and Restore: How to backup and restore your server settings
• Setup a Cluster Master/slave
• HaCluster: Create a farm of a load-balanced clustered proxies 

Databases management

• OpenLDAP service: Manage OpenLDAP service inside Artica
• MySQL/MariaDB service: Manage MySQL / MariaDB SQL service inside Artica
• Redis service:  Manage the Redis Service.