Utilities & System

Essential utilities for monitoring, security hardening, VPN access, database administration, and TLS certificates.

Overview

Utilities & System covers the foundational tools that keep servers observable, secure, and accessible. These apps support monitoring, database administration, VPN access, and SSL/TLS enablement.

Use this category when you need visibility into system health, stronger protection against abuse, or safer remote access to your services.

Monitoring

Track system performance, bandwidth, and service health in real time.

Security

Harden authentication flows and block abusive traffic automatically.

Secure access

Create VPN tunnels and distribute client profiles safely.

HTTPS

Issue and renew SSL/TLS certificates for dashboards and apps.

Included in this category

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Netdata

Real-time infrastructure monitoring with a web dashboard for system metrics and charts.

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phpMyAdmin

Manage your QuickBox databases with the bundled phpMyAdmin utility, installed and maintained through qb.

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Fail2Ban

Brute-force protection for QuickBox Pro with templated SSH, nginx, and dashboard jails plus an interactive QuickBox config wizard.

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WireGuard VPN

Fast kernel-level VPN tunneling for QuickBox Pro. Generate, import, and activate WireGuard client/server configs from the CLI or dashboard, with MTU auto-tuning, location-aware status, and NordVPN profile generation.

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VPN (OpenVPN)

Install and manage the OpenVPN server on QuickBox, generate client profiles, and download per-user bundles via the dashboard route.

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Let's Encrypt SSL

Free, automated SSL/TLS certificates for your QuickBox Pro dashboard and applications. Secure your media server with HTTPS using Let's Encrypt certificate authority—supports both HTTP and DNS challenge methods for wildcard certificates and internal networks.

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Common QuickBox patterns

These utilities split into two groups, and that determines where you manage them:

Packaged installs (Netdata, phpMyAdmin) install from App Dashboard → Package Management, the same as any other app. See App Management.
System features with their own control surface (VPN, WireGuard, Fail2Ban, Let’s Encrypt, Quotas) install from Package Management, then are managed from a dedicated admin page — VPN Control, SSL Control, or the Security Settings Fail2Ban tab. Each guide below leads with the right surface.
Access is gated by role: admins manage system-wide utilities and any user; regular users only see what their group allows.
Reverse-proxy routes, ports, and systemd services are wired automatically — the per-app guide notes anything you need to supply at install time.