Great article at HowToForge on setting up KVM on a CentOS 6.0 host server.
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-a-centos-6.0-server
Great article at HowToForge on setting up KVM on a CentOS 6.0 host server.
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-a-centos-6.0-server
A good article on setting up a FreeRADIUS server for authenticating WiFI users, this is a good thing to do at home if you have a spare server or run a VM server, and all small businesses should be doing this.
Article is at http://olex.openlogic.com/wazi/2011/authenticating-wi-fi-users-with-freeradius/
This program provides a method of sending Windows Eventlog events to a syslog server. It works with the new Windows Events service found in Vista and Server 2008 and can be compiled for both 32 and 64-bit environments. Designed to keep up with very busy servers, it is fast, light, and efficient. The program is designed to run as a windows service.
Download and further details from: http://code.google.com/p/eventlog-to-syslog/
PwnedList is a tool that allows an average person to check if their online accounts have been compromised. The site started out as small research project with a rather simple premise. To discover how many compromised accounts can be harvested programatically in just a couple of hours. Well, needless to say, the results were astonishing. In just under 2 hours we had close to 30,000 accounts, complete with logins and passwords. The truly scary part, however, was the quality of data we were able to collect in such a short amount of time. The accounts we were able to retrieve consisted of email services, social media sites, merchants and even financial institutions. It was clear that something had to be done.
Further details and to check your details: https://www.pwnedlist.com/
QuintoLabs has a free Content filter Squidproxy for Linux available or you can download their virtual appliance and have a SquidProxy with content filter up and running in no time. It took about 5-10 minutes to fire up the appliance and configure a few settings and start surfing via the device.
You can use it for:
QuintoLabs provides access to Content Security for free. Users of the program may leverage the technical expertise of the company by joining various QuintoLabs support subscription plans – Community, Academic, Business and Partner. The pay for subscriptions include support and feature development.
Download Packages are available for the following OSs:
Download from: http://www.quintolabs.com/qlicap_download.php
The Virtual Applicance is based on VMWare.
Download from: http://www.quintolabs.com/qlicap_virtual.php
Control Up is a FREE console that provides you with real time performance monitoring, capable of delivering a comprehensive visibility into Terminal Services farms, VDI environments and desktop end points. A grid, which gives you the big picture view of your environment coupled with capabilities to zoom-in with surgical precision to the individual machine, user, session and process level within seconds – gaining unprecedented visibility into your managed environment.
Download and further details from here:
http://www.smart-x.com
An interesting article at Admin-Magazine about using Apache Bench as a DoS tool and some mitigation recommendations.
http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/Can-Your-Server-Be-Toppled-with-a-Single-Command
Unfortunately VMWare removed the great little Host Update utility for the FREE version of ESXi 5 (vSphere 5). So we now need to use the vMA 5.0 vm from another ESXi host or you can use the vCLI – we will use the vMA 5.0 from another ESXi host. Download vMA 5.0 from http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/ and install and configure this VM on another VM host or some other form of host i.e. VM workstation and so forth.
Now use the VMWare Patches Portal to find your updates/patches:
http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/download.portal
We will update the FREE ESXi 5 VM host to build 474610 with ESXi500-201109001.zip that we downloaded from the portal.
Upgrade steps (assuming your vMA is up and running and you can connect to your ESXi hosts):
esxcli --server=192.168.16.20 --username=root software sources vib list --depot=/vmfs/volumes/DataStore1/ESXi500-201109001.zip | more
esxcli --server=192.168.16.20 --username=root software vib update --depot=/vmfs/volumes/DataStore1/ESXi500-201109001.zip
For a more detailed explanation and steps read the following blog:
http://communities.vmware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2011/09/15/updating-esxi-5–single-use-esxcli-how-to
Resources and links:
vMA 5.0 download and documentation:
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/
Updating ESXi 5 – Single use esxcli How To:
http://communities.vmware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2011/09/15/updating-esxi-5–single-use-esxcli-how-to
Download Patches Portal:
http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/download.portal