Dec 11 2021
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
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.
Dec 05 2021
Sometimes it is very useful to filter most of the data coming out of each ESXi host. The destination logging servers will have cleaner logs as most junk is filtered out. This post will define the current defined filters and the source is from the VMware site itself.
Nov 27 2021
https://community.ui.com/questions/How-To-Configure-UBNT-Wireless-To-Use-RADIUS-Authentication-With-Windows-NPS-Walkthrough/65d103c1-398b-4cbf-a201-45bba84b6b5f
<work on this when i have time, as requested>
Nov 27 2021
Ubiquiti Edgerouter Remote VPN/L2TP client configuration on IPv4 using radius authentication.
Ubiquiti does not (yet) support IPv6 L2TP.
Nov 20 2021
Freedom Internet provides fibre optic (glasvezel) connections on various infrastructures, primarily the KPN network. This post will provides instructions to implementing a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter in combination with this service for IPv4, IPv6 and IPTV.
This instruction will skip multi network (WIFI, DMZ, etc) or separating IPTV into dedicated VLAN. That kind of stuff is unique …
Nov 01 2021
HAProxy is a free and open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers. It is written in C and has a reputation for being fast and efficient.
Keepalived main goal is to provide simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing …
Nov 01 2021
The System Security Services Daemon is software originally developed for the Linux operating system that provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directory services and authentication mechanisms. The beginnings of SSSD lie in the open-source software project FreeIPA
Oct 30 2021
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment, [eyd]) is a file and directory integrity checker.
It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds from the config file(s). Once this database is initialized it can be used to verify the integrity of the files. It has several message digest algorithms (see below) that are …
Oct 30 2021
If you have a central syslog environment which supports TLS/SSL (Splunk, vRealize LogInsight, RSyslog) might be appropriate to encrypt your logging output to these destinations.