Plesk

ip_ban: IP Address Banning (Fail2Ban)

The ip_ban utility allows managing IP addresse banning (Fail2Ban).
With this utility you can perform the following operations:

Usage

ip_ban <command>

Example

The following command sets the IP address ban period to 120 seconds,
the time interval for detection of subsequent attacks to 120 seconds,
and the number of failures before the IP address is banned to 3:

plesk bin ip_ban --update -ban_period 120 -ban_time_window 120 -max_retries 3

Commands

Command Parameter Description Example
--enable   Enable IP address banning.

To enable IP address banning:

plesk bin ip_ban --enable

--disable   Disable IP address banning.

To disable IP address banning:

plesk bin ip_ban --disable

--update or -u   Updates IP address banning (Fail2Ban) settings.

To set the IP address ban period to 120 seconds, the time
interval for detection of subsequent attacks to 120 seconds,
and the number of failures before the IP address is banned to
3:

plesk bin ip_ban --update -ban_period 120 -ban_time_window 120 -max_retries 3

or

plesk bin…