NetBox
May 28, 2021 — 15:35

Author: silver  Category: network web  Comments: Off

If you ever need an IPAM and/or DCIM tool this one is highly recommended. It allows modeling all your infra including network, datacenter and virtualization using a web gui and has an extensive REST API. It can be extended by plugins and "custom fields".

Today it’s widely used and there’s plenty of docs, examples and integrations available.

Installation

The tool is build on Python/Django and uses PostgreSQL. LDAP and other auth methods can be configured. Manual installation includes installing required packages, db and http server. Upgrading to latest version is supported. There’s also Ansible playbooks available for deploying (3rd party).

Objects

There’s Sites, Racks, Devices, Virtualization, VLAN and Interfaces. VM’s and Devices are seen separately and have their own API calls, which might be something to be aware of.

Racks

Devices can be put in racks and have Connections using Cables connecting Interfaces. Same goes for Power, Console, Storage etc.

IPAM

For IPAM there’s Prefixes, IP’s (4 and 6), VLANs, VRF’s and VC’s.

Importing data

Can be done in bulk with e.g. CSV or using the API. If you’re migrating from RackTables there’s ‘racktables2netbox’ but be aware it’s not updated and not directly usable in it’s current state (e.g. API’s changed). It uses ‘pynetbox’, a client lib you can also use for own scripts.

Links

FreshRSS
April 3, 2020 — 14:31

Author: silver  Category: web  Comments: Off

FreshRSS is a self hostable RSS and Atom aggregator (https://freshrss.org) which can also be installed using Docker.

I’m using it myself for Security and general IT related news at https://rss.revlis.nl.

Here’s a Docker run example with persistent data storage and option to edit themes:

docker-freshrss.sh

#!/bin/sh
if ! docker network ls | grep -q freshrss-network; then
  docker network create freshrss-network
fi
docker run -d --restart unless-stopped --log-opt max-size=10m \
  -v freshrss-data:/var/www/FreshRSS/data \
  -v /opt/docker/freshrss/themes:/var/www/FreshRSS/p/themes \
  -e 'CRON_MIN=4,34' \
  -e TZ=Europe/Amsterdam \
  --net freshrss-network \
  -p 127.0.0.1:88:80 \
  --name freshrss freshrss/freshrss:latest
docker port freshrss

GoAccess
November 25, 2017 — 18:04

Author: silver  Category: linux web  Comments: Off

GoAccess is a “real-time web log analyzer” which can output in CLI or HTML (like webalizer, awstats and piwik etc). It works out of the box with Apache, for lighttpd you probably need to specify the log format. Examples below are for lighttpd. Run “goaccess /var/log/httpd/access.log” without any other arguments and it will ask for the log format and drop you into the Dashboard (text based gui).

CLI

no conf, just arguments:

goaccess /var/log/lighttpd/access.log \
--date-format=%d/%b/%Y \
--time-format='%T %z' \
--log-format='%h %v %e [%d:%t] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"'

-or-

change /etc/goaccess.conf:

date-format %d/%b/%Y:%T %z
log-format %h %v %e [%d] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"

HTML

Output to “static” html file.

current log:

goaccess /var/log/lighttpd/access.log \
  --date-format=%d/%b/%Y \
  --time-format='%T %z' \
  --log-format='%h %v %e [%d:%t] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"' \
  --output=/var/www/html/goaccess.html

use all logs:

zcat -f /var/log/lighttpd/access.log*gz | goaccess \
  --date-format=%d/%b/%Y \
  --time-format='%T %z' \
  --log-format='%h %v %e [%d:%t] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"' \
  --ignore-crawlers \
  --with-output-resolver \
  -e 127.0.0.1 -e ::1 -e exclude.example.com
  --output=/var/www/html/goaccess.html

Server

The last option is to run it as Server using WebSocket. This allows it to:

  • output realtime HTML: --real-time-html
  • run as daemon: --daemonize
  • use FIFO: --fifo-in= --fifo-out=
  • use HTTPS: --ssl-cert= --ssl-key= --ws-url=wss://url

live log:

goaccess /var/log/lighttpd/access.log \
 --date-format=%d/%b/%Y \
 --time-format='%T %z' \
 --log-format='%h %v %e [%d:%t] "%r" %s %b "%R" "%u"' \
 --output=/var/www/html/goaccess.html \
 --real-time-html \
 --ssl-cert=//etc/ssl/certs/cert.pem \
 --ssl-key=/etc/ssl/private/privkey.pem --ws-url=wss://example.com:7890

Now https://example.com/goaccess.html should should a live Dashboard (tcp port 7890 needs to be open for client).

WP-CLI
November 25, 2016 — 12:38

Author: silver  Category: web  Comments: Off

WP-CLI A command line interface for WordPress

Download from: https://wp-cli.org/

Configuration:

  • /etc/sudoers.d/wp-cli:
  • 
    
  • crontab:
  • 
    
    WP without (s)ftp/ssh
    March 13, 2012 — 21:31

    Author: silver  Category: web  Comments: Off

    To use WordPress on host without ftp/sftp/ssh access, add this line to ‘wp-config.php’

    define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');







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