Before we begin, know that This subnet is NOT SECURE and should only be used for certain things that absolutely require Open NAT and UPNP like game consoles, old PC games, or other insecure things. I would strongly advise setting up an Intrusion Detection system or Intrusion Prevention System like suricata. It will allow any
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Before we begin, lets see what a ELK stack is made of. ELK stacks are comprised of ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kabina with each of these services preforming different jobs. This diagram from Logz.io explains its the best Beats are installed to each host to collect the various metrics used by these services. Logstash is responsible
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Since dell so rudely removed the updates from SUM, Here is the last iso you could build from it. Just boot into it and it should install all of the firmware updates, like idrac, lifecycle controller, raid card, etc. Just be warned… it will take awhile. Enjoy https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zMoOsYS9X63TaIlHVD0uE13M4QhPcmQZ/view?usp=sharing or (If link is broken) https://angrysysadmins.tech/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/DellR710_LatestSUU.iso
I have a client setup with multiple Edgerouter’s in an IPSec Site to Site configuration. I’ve setup a Policy based IPsec site to site configuration using this guide here. However, sometimes they just refuse to connect, with no real reason as to why. Edgerouters use StrongSwan for its VPN, so some of its troubleshooting information
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oVirt is a great product, and it’s hosted engine is a great concept. It is a mostly automated deploy of a VM containing the oVirt Hosted Engine and the initial setup of your first host. This is similar to how VMware and XCP-ng/XenServer does it, however the default install method of the hosted engine tries
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Have you ever wanted to mass export virtual machines? I know I have and its infuriating that the web GUI does not have this option built into it. So I went and pulled some good ol’ duct tape engineering and made a somewhat functional script for it. Firstly, we need to connect to the
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Ever wanted to have per host usage statics with pfSense? I know I have for awhile. There are packages you can get from the package manager that will accomplish this. Both darkstat and bandwidthd will do this for you. They will host a webpage or web server on your pfSense router. They are pretty self
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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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I woke up today to a wonderful sight. My ESXi 6.7 server bootlooping! It was failing with the error code 15 (Not Found) on a driver file. I know that I certainly did not delete it, but oh well this is what backups are for… I don’t have backups of the ESXi boot flashdrive, but
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