I recently got a new Fortigate 40F for home labbing and finally got around to setting it up – I generally like to update to the latest updated firmware on new devices when I’m not trying to mirror a production environment. Unfortunately, 7.2.6 had a strange issue with SSH not
Linux console info and motd
When spinning up new Linux VMs I often lose track of IP addresses and hostnames, here’s a quick way to see pertinent info in the console window (e.g. within VirtualBox or VMware Workstation). Console Info \4 and \6 show the contained interface addresses, if you just don’t add the interface
Git for config backups
In addition to full VM backups, having config file backups can help with system migrations and change rollback if something goes awry. This is especially useful for a system with live timeseries databases that you wouldn’t want to roll back and lose data (e.g. Graylog, LibreNMS). Prerequisites Create SSH keys
Linux Sysadmin Quick Tips
I’ve been doing a lot more with our Linux machines recently – specifically migrating from old CentOS 7 installs to Ubuntu LTS. While I really love CLI work, sometimes the density and organization of info on the screen leaves something to be desired. Show apt packages on separate lines Quick
IIS logs for TLS tracking
One of the building blocks of system and network monitoring is watching the logs. IIS logs are one of the best places to keep track of access and availability of your web apps, but by default don’t really give you any actionable information for security. Let’s walk through how to
Windows Event Forwarding – Intro
The built in functionality of Windows Event Forwarding is pretty powerful, if a little awkward to set up. I’ll be putting together a series of posts walking through my own setup and hopefully it will save someone the missteps I made initially. WEF allows for a machine to forward its