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 …

How to Setup SNMPv3 on a Cisco ASA with LibreNMS

The guide below will explain how to setup SNMPv3 on a Cisco ASA with LibreNMS for Secure Monitoring! My goal with this article is to monitor devices over the WAN without ports being opened. ASA CONFIG: configure terminal snmp-server group libre v3 priv snmp-server user libreuser libre v3 auth sha password priv aes 128 password …

Cisco ASA Site to Site VPN Failover How-To

Policy based IPSEC tunneling is probably the most widely used technique to get two offices to communicate securely (at least in the SMB Market). Today I'm going to discuss how you can configure two ASA's to failover to their secondary WAN, and then have their tunnels fail over as well. One should always aim for …

How to Block All Except Cloudflare From Your Webserver

Today I'm going to show you how to quickly whitelist all of Cloudflare's prefixes so that direct connection to your site is dropped. My goal in this is to make sure no naughty users ever go through my public IP. Please forgive the ugly bash since I usually just stick to Powershell 🙂   First …