CentOS 6 Enterprise Network Tool Box

First I get asked why CentOS versus Ubuntu and that's a tough question to answer seeing how I test both operating systems and both are very solid but I have had better luck and reliability with CentOS. I know, I know, Ubuntu has tens of thousands of more applications for it then CentOS does but I'm not building an application server, I am building a reliable network tool box that must be up and running.

So here is my layout of building a CentOS 6.0 Enterprise Network Tool Box Server

PreReq:

• CentOS 6 i386 LiveCD (since the server I am installing it on doesn't have a DVD drive)
• Static IP Address: 10.6.0.135/24

• OpenSSH (allows connecting to the box remotely and function as a Jump Box)
• FTP Server (more then likely proftp)
• Apache, MySQL, PHP (websites)
• Webmin (allows management of server via web console)
• VMServer (allows running a Windows 2003 Server if required)
• Nagios (Network Monitoring Tool, eventually you should load NagVis and NConf)
• Network Tools like: nmap, tracetcp, lsof, iptraf)