In the previous article I went over how to setup Grafana and InfluxDB. In this one, I’ll be going over how to make use of them to have a dashboard that show metrics from a pfSense firewall. Going forward I will assume that you have Grafana and InfluxDB configured as described in the previous article,
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Grafana is a platform used to visualize and analyze data from your network. It also has the ability to send alerts when certain conditions are met, and can import data from many of the popular ways to store it. I’ve recently been dedicating quite a bit of time to getting better at using it and
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The preferred method of pulling a console for a virtual machine hosted on oVirt is Spice. However, you can only use it when on the same subnet as the host. So if, for example, you’re trying to use Spice over a VPN that puts you on a different address space than the VM host, you
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cURL is an incredibly useful tool. This article is going to focus on using it to POST authentication data to a website, such as a pfSense or Joomla instance.
Tested on Ubuntu 16.04. Here are the commands, life story and explanation is below: echo foreign-architecture amd64 | tee /etc/dpkg/dpkgcfgd/multiarch dpkg --add-architecture amd64 apt update apt install linux-image-4.15.0-50:amd64 apt install gcc-multilib apt upgrade (Reboot, make sure you boot on to the new kernel), and then set sources.list to only have amd64 (Put [ arch=amd64 ]
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This article will be covering how to setup a basic firewall using each of the four main methods of doing so. I’ll leave covering advanced stuff to James, as he’s been somewhat obsessed with learning the complicated aspects of firewalls recently, but the basic are also important. UFW I’ll start with the simplest one. UFW
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By internal network, I mean a network that does not correspond to a physical NIC. It exists purely to allow VMs to communicate with each other. On the oVirt Node With that said, let’s begin. oVirt requires that all networks, even internal ones, correspond to a NIC. So step one is to make the host
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yaourt is an AUR helper, which is a short way of saying that it is a tool to help with installation and dependency management when installing packages from the Arch User Repository. It is also commonly recommended in guides about starting out on Arch or Manjaro, since it used to be default on Manjaro before
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ELK (or Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is a set of three technologies by elastic that can be combined to collect and visualize log data. Think of it as rsyslog on steroids and with pretty colors. First off, this guide is written using examples from an Arch Linux host. Theoretically, you should be able to follow
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Below is a collection of useful Bash one-liners that we have come across and use semi-often (or at least often enough to not want to lose them). Honestly we mostly made this just in case we need them again and have lost them elsewhere, but hopefully they end up helping some of you as well!
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