In a previous handbook about CFEngine 3 on FreeBSD we have seen how to install, configure and do configuration management of our FreBSD systems using CFEngine 3.

In this handbook we will see how to install and configure a Postfix server which relays through Gmail.

In the following handbook we will show you how to install and configure Squid acting as a transparent proxy server and DansGuardian for content filtering on a FreeBSD system.

Tinderbox is a package building system system, which we will be using in order to build our packages and then install them to our FreeBSD hosts and jails.

If you’ve followed the handbook by this step, that means that now you have a basic CFEngine 3 policy server and clients already installed and configured.

Now that we have our CFEngine policy servers configured properly and running, the next thing we are going to do is to configure the clients (agents), that will be controlled via CFEngine.

The work directory of CFEngine consists of a number of other directories and files:

Administrating a couple hundreds of systems might easily become a tedious tasks, even for the very experienced system administrators.

In this handbook we will have a look at OpenVPN - a full-featured open-source SSL VPN solution and see how to install and configure it under FreeBSD.

In this handbook we will have a look at Cacti - The complete RRDTool based graphing solution.