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).
Read more… ( ~7 Min.)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).
Read more… ( ~7 Min.)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 .
Read more… ( ~1 Min.)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.
Read more… ( ~7 Min.)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.
Read more… ( ~3 Min.)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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