Christian Berding
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Dec 31 2021
Debian: Wazuh
Wazuh is a free, open source and enterprise-ready security monitoring solution for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response and compliance.
Dec 31 2021
Debian: Prometheus SNMP
This exporter is the recommended way to expose SNMP data in a format which Prometheus can ingest.
Dec 31 2021
NSX-T Edge and Manager CFAPI/TLS Integration
NSX-T edges, manager and components do support integration with LogInsight CFAPI Agent with TLS. However the NSX-T Manager UI does not support this specific combination of options and requires CLI work in order to function.
Dec 30 2021
NSX-T Overlay Configuration (EDGE/HOST)
Update: 2025 for NSX4.x
VMware NSX-T™ Data Center provides an agile software-defined infrastructure to build cloud-native application environments.
NSX-T Data Center focuses on providing networking, security, automation, and operational simplicity for emerging application frameworks and architectures that have heterogeneous endpoint environments and technology stacks. NSX-T Data Center supports cloud-native applications, bare metal …
Dec 30 2021
Debian: Docker-CE
Docker is a set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files; they can communicate with each other through well-defined channels.
Dec 28 2021
Avamar Cheatsheet
This blog entry is a cheat sheet for various Avamar commands and options required during deployment or day-to-day operations.
Dec 21 2021
Debian: LVS (Direct Route/DR)
Direct Routing: referred to as DR, adopts a semi open network structure, similar to the structure of TUN mode (IP tunnel), but the nodes are not scattered in different places, but located in the same physical network with the scheduler. The load scheduler connects with each node server through the local network, so there is …
Dec 20 2021
Windows: Prometheus-Node-Exporter
Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database (allowing for high dimensionality) built using a HTTP pull model, with flexible queries and real-time alerting. Prometheus also has node exporters including windows to export OS specific metrics.
Dec 11 2021
Debian: Netdata Parent
Netdata is an open source tool designed to collect real-time metrics, such as CPU usage, disk activity, bandwidth usage, website visits, etc., and then display them in live, easy-to-interpret charts. This post will cover how to create a Netdata “parent’ for centralized collecting of all the children. In a later post this will be integrated …
Dec 10 2021
Debian: Squid Block AdServers
Some us of don’t want to run PiHole, but do wish to run an AdBlock system either in DNS or integrated with our proxy server. https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/#plaintext provides a solution to both. This entry will describe how to integrate an Adblock list into a Squid proxy environment.