Still we cannot find any freely available usefull IKE State Monitoring for our VPN Tunnels in 2018…thats bad. That’s why I have grabbed my laptop for a couple of sleepless nights and created from TIG Stack and Maxmind Geolite Free and with Python an IKE State Monitoring Tool. See the building blocks for that service […]
October 25, 2016
yED is an alternative software for those engineers who are working with linux and dont like microsoft visio and want make network topologies faster and simplier for free :-) There is a lot of features like automatic layout and easy data import and so on it realy intuitive when you use it. One of the […]
October 25, 2016
Set proxy only at login and unset at logout On some Linux Servers I must reach to the Internet through web proxy with user credentials and i dont have a so called service user everytime. Generally I must set the wget and apt-get and the system wide proxy everytime I login and delete before logout. […]
January 17, 2015
1. What is the difference between machine digital certificate and user certificate? 1.1 Answer Microsoft Windows specifically: ” Local machine certificate store This type of certificate store is local to the computer and is global to all users on the computer. This certificate store is located in the registry under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE root. Current user […]
August 30, 2014
1. The Global Counters The Palo Alto Firewall has released an API, that has some (not all) commands to issue through external programmable interface. This API is based on XML and makes it possible to issue specific commands with that you can check just for example some states of the firewall. Through the API it […]
May 6, 2014
On packetpushers.net somebody wrote an articel about automatically get the outputs of show command of the cisco asa with lynx. That makes it possible to see if a specific counter for a feature, service or process or just interface counter changes, mainly increases, but you cannot see the size of the increase. In troubleshooting it […]
May 5, 2014
The followings links can be used for the list of Cisco ASA SNMP MIBs. Cisco ASA SNMP MIBs: ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/supportlists/asa/asa-supportlist.html ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v2/CISCO-IPSEC-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB.my OIDs Information page: http://www.mibdepot.com/cgi-bin/getmib3.cgi?win=mib_av&i=1&n=CISCO-IPSEC-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB&r=hp&f=ipsec-flow.mi2&v=v2&t=tree IKE SNMP Queries example 1. Check my IP in the firewall that terminates vpns. OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.3.1.3 OID NAME cikeTunRemoteValue OID Description The value of the local peer identity. If the local […]
November 1, 2012
Imagine I had Linux Mint 12 and I connected my headphone to my linux machine, after disconnecting it I have lost my sound!?! I have alarm sounds in my monitoring system for many companies and it was just silence, no alarms… I had to check the settings with the alsamixer gui (alsamixer command) and something […]
November 1, 2012
That was the most important and critical security issue I have ever had! :-) I wanted to see the big jump, the Red Bull Stratos, but I was on the way home. I have tried to watch it on the road with my linux mint laptop. I have already had a Geniatech DVB-T TV Stick […]
November 1, 2012
I wanted to know after couple of month what I have installed on my computer with linux. Just in case I have to reinstall my linux I want to know what tools and applications I have installed earlier. It is quite easy to list them for future references actually for brand new installations. I have […]
November 13, 2018
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