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ELK 5 on Ubuntu: Pt. 3 – Installing and Configuring Beats Agents on Windows Clients
In the previous two posts I went over everything from installing Ubuntu to getting the ELK stack setup and ingesting logs from itself. Now in this final post in the series I am going to cover collecting Windows Event and IIS logs from remote Windows clients. Here is the quick run down of exactly what…
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ELK 5 on Ubuntu: Pt. 2 – Installing and Configuring Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana & Nginx
In part one of this series, I went over the basics of installing and configuring Ubuntu 16.04. Now in this part, I am going to take that same VM and go over everything needed to create a functional ELK stack on a single server. By the end of this post the ELK stack will be…
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ELK 5 on Ubuntu: Pt. 1 – Installing and Configuring Ubuntu 16.04
In this post I am going to cover the steps needed to install and configure Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop as the base operating system for what is going to become the ELK Stack server. My intention with this first post is to help people running the ELK services on top of Windows be a little more…
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Home Server Rack – How Loud is it?
One of the most common questions I get when talking about running servers at home is, how loud is it? So in this video I give a quick demonstration comparing my mild gaming desktop to my home server rack consisting of 6 servers and a “custom” exhaust on the rear of the rack. I tried…
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VMware ESXi 6 crashes during install on Dell C2100, PF Exception 14 in world 32768
During the install of VMware ESXi 6 on my new Dell C2100 I ran into an issue where right before fully booting into the install it would consistently purple screen with the following error: PF Exception 14 in world 32768 Looking up some basic information on this error pointed me in the direction of either…
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Stopping Bots and Website Scrapers from scanning your sites on IIS with URL Rewriteโฆ
Bots and Website Scrapers can be a serious annoyance to anyone who is responsible for administering a website and the more sites and servers you are responsible the more of a problem it can become. Every request a bot or scraper makes requires some amount of resources on the web server hosting the site, the…
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Metasploit Framework basics on Kali Linux – Owning a Windows Server
In this post I want to talk about the basics of using the Metasploit Framework that is included on the latest version of Kali Linux. If you don’t already know the Metasploit Framework is a project that makes writing and utilizing exploits relatively easy and it’s components are very modularized. Metasploit has everything you need…
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How I cool my server rack!
In this video I show my newest method of cooling my server rack, which so far has proved to work extremely well! I got this idea after seeing some video and pictures of newer data centers keeping the hot and cool air separate, then exhausting the hot air directly out. I thought why couldn’t I…
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How I remotely access and manage my servers even when they are powered off!
In this video I talk about how I remotely access the servers in my videos “Out-of-band” aka via a Java console even when they are powered off. I have received quite a few questions about this one and figured it was time to do a video. This is what allows me to access the BIOS…
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ELK Stack Pt. 2: Collecting logs from remote servers via Beats
In one of my recent posts, Installing Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) on Windows Server 2012 R2, I explained how to setup and install an ELK server but it was only collecting logs from itself. That in itself isn’t very useful as the real value is when you begin collecting and indexing all of the…
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