by Farooq Ahmed | Dec 20, 2016 | Rasberry Pi
Its now possible to install the latest version of Nagios NRPE v 3.0.1 (source install) on RaspberryPi (incl. Pixel OS). Just follow this simple article and you will be up and running with NRPE on Nagios clients as well as on the Nagios server which needs to...
by Farooq Ahmed | Dec 16, 2016 | ESXi
The process of replacing the default SSL certificates on ESXi 6.x/6.5 is a simple process involving around 5-10 steps. We would need a seperate linux host to generate the openssl self-signed certificate (NOTE: we are not using any CA). Host needs to be in Host...
by Farooq Ahmed | Nov 28, 2016 | Puppet
This article shows you how to Automate iptables for the whole infrastructure (linux/unix) and maintain the state during the lifecycle of a host. We would need to install 2 modules from PuppetLabs so that we can assign Rules based on the requirements, whether its from...
by Farooq Ahmed | Oct 25, 2016 | Nagios Core
To make Nagios CORE security compliant with a SHA2/SHA256 cert, follow these steps using Openssl and you will be ready in no time with a PCI compliant cert. This is a standard requirement nowadays in any PCI compliant environment. This is implemented with Apache...
by Farooq Ahmed | Oct 25, 2016 | RHEL / CentOS
To generate a SHA256 certficate in linux all you need to do is run this openssl command and you will be ready with a PCI compliant cert. This is a standard requirement nowadays in any PCI compliant environment. This is implemented with Apache backend. Run the below...