fail2ban_commands []

View Current Jails

What current jails are there?

# fail2ban-client status
Status
|- Number of jail:      1
`- Jail list:   wp-login, xmlrpc

Viewing Jail Information

Viewing the status of that jail such as: total banned, blocked IPs, number of failed attempts

# fail2ban-client status xmlrpc
Status for the jail: xmlrpc
|- Filter
|  |- Currently failed: 1
|  |- Total failed:     21
|  `- File list:        /var/log/nginx/access.log
`- Actions
   |- Currently banned: 3
   |- Total banned:     3
   `- Banned IP list:   x.x.x.x x.x.x.x x.x.x.x

Ignore IP

# fail2ban-client ssh-iptables set addignoreip x.x.x.x
These IP addresses/networks are ignored:
|- 127.0.0.1/8
`- 7x.x.x.x

Getting the IPs

# fail2ban-client get ssh-iptables ignoreip

Unban IP

Fail2Ban < v0.8.8:

fail2ban-client get JAILNAME actionunban x.x.x.x

Fail2Ban > v0.8.8:

fail2ban-client set JAILNAME unbanip x.x.x.x