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Software Integrity Checking

The AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) software is included with the system to provide software integrity checking. It is designed to be a replacement for the well-known Tripwire integrity checker.

The RPM software also includes the ability to compare the hashes of installed files with those in its own metadata database. Integrity checking cannot prevent intrusions into your system, but can detect that they have occurred. Such integrity checking software should be configured before the system is deployed and able to provides services to users.

Ideally, the integrity checking database would be built before the system is connected to any network,though this may prove impractical due to registration and software updates.

Integrating your custom software with cPanel & WHM

Software development kit (SDK) contains instructions and sample code describing the methods you can use to interact with our products.

Getting started

For those who are new to developing software that integrates with cPanel & WHM, you should review the API documentation. API allows you to access cPanel & WHM through your code.

API documentation:

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/SoftwareDevelopmentKit/WebHome#CpanelApi

Cpanel Update Server Software feature

The Update Server Software feature manages software dependencies (provided by the operating system) that cPanel requires.

Here’s where you can find and use this feature:

And from the command Line

Cpanel software update scripts description

In addition to /scripts/upcp

Update System Software Updates your system software. This script is essentially the same as running yum update.

Update Server Software Updates software dependencies required by cPanel that are provided by the operating system.

There are a number of scripts that update applications installed with cPanel.

Make sure you do not install services such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, Ftp, Sendmail, etc., as this is done by DirectAdmin. All that is needed is a CLEAN install of the operating system.

DirectAdmin Control Panel Software