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Using Azure MFA with RADIUS for VPN Access

We need to have staff use MFA when connecting to our VPN connection. Luckily Microsoft Azure has an MFA extension that you can install on your NPS RADIUS server! Installation Downlead the NPS Extension from Microsoft to your NPS server and run the installer. BY default, the NPS Extension will install to C:\Program Files\Mircosoft\AzureMfa. Once […]

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Microsoft LAPS

Microsoft LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) solves the issue of the password management with those local user accounts across your Active Directory domain but randomizing and expiring those local password. In this post I’ll go over how to install and setup LAPS. Prerequisites Download: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3062591/microsoft-security-advisory-local-administrator-password-solution-laps Should not be installed on a domain controller (will change the […]

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Ubiquiti Unifi Controller Backup

We host our Unifi Controller on Ubuntu and needed a way to back it up to our Windows server (don’t ask). Prerequisites A base install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with a static IP address When editing a file with Nano, to save your changes to do the following: Ctrl+X to Exit Y to save the edits currently stored in the buffer […]

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How to Setup a SmokePing Server

SmokePing is a latency measurement tool that will test, store, and display (with pretty graphs) latency and packet lost between your server and another (or external service). Prerequisites More info can be found here: https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ A base install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with a static IP address When editing a file with Nano, to save your changes to do the […]

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Nagios Web Interface AD Authentication

By default Nagios Core’s web interface only authenticates locally using a .htpasswd file. Each user would have to be manually added to this file along with a few other places within the Nagios configuration files to be able to login and view host/service statuses. When editing a file with Nano, to save your changes to do the […]

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Adding Contacts to Nagios

Contacts are created in Nagios for email alerts. They can be setup for individual users or a distribution list. They can also be setup to alert at different times of the day and can send alerts based on severity of the issue. If you don’t already have a Nagios server setup, you can follow my […]

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Nagios 4.4.6 on Ubuntu 20.04

I use Nagios a lot for work to monitor our Linux and Windows servers as well as Ubiquiti equipment. I put together a walkthrough of how I setup Nagios. This is mainly for my documentation, but if you find it useful as well or have any recommendations to make my steps better, please let me […]

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