Tag: Linux
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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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Dell C2100 BMC Password Reset via IPMITool
I recently acquired another Dell C2100 for my lab only to find out that the password on the BMC had been changed from the default root/root combo and I had no clue what the previous owner set it to. As it turns out, you cannot reset the credentials on the BMC via the BIOS or…
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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 to – Building Virtual Machines with VMWare ESXi 5.1…(Video)
Virtual Machines in less than 5 minutes That’s right, it takes less than 5 minutes to get a VM up and running in VMWare ESXi 5.1 via the VSphere console. Not only does this allow for fast provisioning of machines and whole environments but it also supports Windows, Linux and a myriad of other OSs.…
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My Home Server & Lab Setup (Video & Gallery)
It all started with a single ESXi host… This whole thing really started with a single custom built pc I made out of a spare motherboard I had. The intention with that box was to run a few virtual machines to play around with Windows Server and IIS 7, maybe even some Linux. One…
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