How to Configure OSPF Authentication – Complete Guide

OSPF offers us 4 kinds of authentication when studying the CCNA and CCNP we really only hear/read about 3, the fourth SHA, is fairly new. Here's the complete list of available authentication for OSPF. NULL (no authentication) cleartext (packet capture reveals the password) MD5 (creates a 128bit fingerprint of the password, click here to read …

Pre-Built LibreNMS OVF with Oxidized + Ryslog + 1 Min Polling

The goal of this article is to provide you with a pre-built LibreNMS. This image should require very little tinkering, This VM is not meant to be publicly accessibly, it should only be used internally to get you working, feel free to improve it. I'm going to go over the setup in this article. The …

How to Install Nagios Plugins for LibreNMS On Centos 7

This article will show you how to quickly install all of the nagios plugins with Librenms, On CentOS 7. First install nagios-plugins-all yum install nagios-plugins-all.x86_64 -y In the Libredocs they say that this is installed in /usr/lib/nagios/plugins, however mine was installed in /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Services/ Anyway, now you need to add two lines into your LibreNMS …

How to Integrate Oxidized Into LibreNMS

Oxidized is a great tool for automating backups of device configs like ASA Firewalls, IOS routers, and all types of switches! I chose Oxidized because it very easy integrates into Librenms. The instructions for how to integrate oxidized into LibreNMS are below:   go to the working directory cd /root/ install ruby and crap sudo …

How To Configure Oxidized To Backup Cisco ASAs

Here is a basic configuration of installing Oxidized. It will also show you how to configure oxidized to backup Cisco ASAs. Let's begin! go to the working directory cd /root/ install ruby and crap sudo yum -y install nano cmake sqlite-devel openssl-devel libssh2-devel ruby gcc ruby-devel install oxidized sudo gem install oxidized sudo gem install …

Firepower Management Center Active Directory Authenticated

AD Authenticated Firepower Management Center The goal of this article is to quickly show you  how you can configure your Firepower Management Center (FMC) to authenticate against Active Directory. First login to FMC as a local admin 2. Hover over System, then select Users   3. Select External Authentication 4.  Select Add External Authentication Object …