Fail2Ban: Any thoughts positive or negative on installing this?

[PsyberTech]

I have been told that for some of my security options, I should install Fail2Ban on my CWP/Centos 6.6 servers.

Any thoughts or recommendations before I start to tinker with it?

Many thanks!

[Administrator]

you should enable CSF firewall on your server and then you do not need this 3rdparty.

[Media Schmiede]

How Protect Firewall failed logins on http://my.hostname.tld:2030/ and ssh without bind to an fixed ip?
For me not possile cause our local ip change daily.

[martexx]

First of all fail2ban is not needed if u use csf+lfd, but ... lfd needs a lot of work to filter as much as fail2ban does.

For example Roundcude... very often a target for hackers/kiddies and not dealth with by LFD

So yes.. its a good idea to use fail2ban for things that LFD does not cover. or configure LFD to cover those via regex-custom.pm
Im developing a toll to automate this as its very gard, where for fail2ban its rather easy

Then @Media Schmiede

U are safe, it does not matter that u use a changing ip address.