Running pfSense in a XenServer with xenguest Rumi, November 19, 2022 If you deploy pfSense on a XenServer, you may be shocked at the performance loss-specially on interface speed! But wait, there are some tweaks to make this usable. Installing pfSense Go ahead and setup pfSense like normal, and when you are done, perform the following tweaks. (the day till it’s… Continue Reading
Build WAF with Reverse Proxy Load Balancer using Nginx Rumi, November 16, 2022 Getting Started First, it is recommended to update and upgrade all your software packages to the latest version. You can update all of them by running the following command: apt update -y apt upgrade -y Once all the packages are updated, install other required packages with the following command: apt… Continue Reading
Install Discourse on Ubuntu 20.04 Rumi, November 14, 2022 Secure the Server Turn on automatic security updates. $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades Setup a firewall with ufw. $ sudo apt-get install ufw $ sudo ufw default allow outgoing $ sudo ufw default deny incoming $ sudo ufw allow 22 comment ‘SSH’ $ sudo ufw allow http comment ‘HTTP’ $ sudo… Continue Reading
Cacti user creation with specific graphs permission Rumi, November 4, 2022 As an admin of cacti you can anything and everything. However, at certain times, you need to create restricted user who has access to only certain graphs of the cacti system. So here goes the steps (this is based on cacti version 1.2.21)- From left menu select Configuration > Users Continue Reading
Set Up a Radius Server on pfSense Rumi, November 2, 2022November 5, 2022 Installing the Package The pfSense 2.X package manager includes both FreeRadius and FreeRadius2 as installation options. For this example, I’m going to be using FreeRadius2 since it has some additional features not found in the previous version. Only one version of radius can be installed on pfSense at a time…. Continue Reading
Install MariaDB 10.3 on CentOS Rumi, October 23, 2022 Step 1: Add MariaDB Yum Repository Create a new repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo and add the below code changing the base url according to the operating system version and architecture. # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo [mariadb] name = MariaDB baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.3/centos73-amd64/ gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB gpgcheck=1 Step 2 – Install MariaDB Server Let’s use the… Continue Reading
PFSense SNMP Configuration Rumi, September 9, 2022 Open a browser software, enter the IP address of your Pfsense firewall and access web interface. In our example, the following URL was entered in the Browser: https://192.168.15.11 The Pfsense web interface should be presented. After a successful login, you will be sent to the Pfsense Dashboard. Access the Pfsense… Continue Reading
Allow Ping on PFSense WAN interface Rumi, September 9, 2022 This article shows you how to allow ##ping## on the WAN side of your pfSense firewall. By default, ping to WAN address is disabled on pfSense for security reason. However, you may want to allow ping for different reasons, here is how: # Login to pfSense # Open Firewall >… Continue Reading
Install Percona Monitoring and Management using Docker Rumi, September 9, 2022 You can any distribution for installation- Rocky/Alma/CentoS 8 Stream. I assume you’ll use anyone of these instance. Step 1: Add Docker Repository Docker is not yet available on default repositories. Thankfully, an official repository has been provided by developers and we are going to add it first to the system…. Continue Reading
CentOS 7 Server Installation with Software RAID Rumi, September 4, 2022 Install the Operating System Boot from the USB flash drive and select Install CentOS 7 When the welcome screen of the CentOS installer appears, choose your language and just click on Continue Continue Reading