Logging with graylog

 31.08.2022

Sometimes, you want a backup mail server. Something that will accept mail and hold it for delivery until your primary mail server is available again. This is the purpose of a backup MX (the MX refers to the type of DNS record that mail exchangers use).

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Building a backup MX

 22.02.2022

Sometimes, you want a backup mail server. Something that will accept mail and hold it for delivery until your primary mail server is available again. This is the purpose of a backup MX (the MX refers to the type of DNS record that mail exchangers use).

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Backing up an Opengear console with Rancid

 28.01.2022 -  Louis Kowolowski

Recently deployed some Opengear serial consoles   (love them, they work great). I needed a way to back them up in some kind of automated fashion. Turns out Opengear   has written some scripts   to work with Rancid   .

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Building an IPSec hub and spoke

 24.04.2021 -  Louis Kowolowski

Sort of a continuation of the last post. This still uses FreeBSD   , pfSense   , Juniper SRX   but it could fairly easily be adapted to OpnSense   (fork/clone of pfSense   ), and other network vendor appliances.

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Setting up Telegraf

 15.08.2020 -  Louis Kowolowski

Telegraf1 is an agent that is capable of collecting various metrics and exporting them to various storage backends.

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Graphite and FreeNAS

 01.08.2020 -  Louis Kowolowski

If you want to export your FreeNAS1 reporting information to some kind of monitor/collector, graphite is how its done.

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