Using CSF with this instead of fail2ban

After spending half a day debugging, I could never get fail2ban to trigger an action even though it was regex matching the IPs from the logs. As an alternative I found a way to use CSF LFD to block IPs with this plugin per http://forum.configserver.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6663#p20069

Apparently I’m not the only one having issues with fail2ban. I just wanted to share this for anyone else struggling with it. CSF is much more than a log parser and interface w\ iptables, easier to setup, and updates more often anyways.

http://configserver.com/cp/csf.html
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/