[CentOS] Fail2Ban Centos 7 is there a trick to making it work?

Been working on fail2ban, and trying to make it work with plain Jane 
install of Centos 7

Machine is a HP running 2 Quad core Xeons, 16 gig or ram and 1 plus TB 
of disk space. Very generic and vanilla.

Current available epel repo version is fail2ban-0.9.1

Looking at the log file, fail2ban starts and stops fine, there isn't 
output though showing any login attempts being restricted.

2015-03-09 12:54:37,930 fail2ban.server         [14805]: INFO    Stopping all jails
2015-03-09 12:54:37,931 fail2ban.server         [14805]: INFO    Exiting Fail2ban
2015-03-09 12:54:38,338 fail2ban.server         [16678]: INFO    Changed logging target to /var/log/fail2ban.log for Fail2ban v0.9.1
2015-03-09 12:54:38,341 fail2ban.database       [16678]: INFO    Connected to fail2ban persistent database '/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3'

I copied jail.conf and added the edited jail.local to the directory 
/etc/fail2ban/

This is about as far as I have gotten with searches on how to configure 
with Centos 7.

Any help would be welcome. What am I missing?

john