Sometimes you are forced into re-installing your UniFi Controller. And then you need to force re-adoption of your APs and really don’t want to take them down from the ceiling to press that little reset button. SSH and remote access to the rescue and a nifty little script on the AP. Reset AP to factory …
Recently i have moved house, for a long time prior to that i had always been “playing” with WiFi solutions becoming increasingly frustrated with resolutions, so a little background, my house has 6 people in it (2 Adults and 4 Teenagers) and as you can imagine each of these six have more then one device …
How are we all doing So recently following on for some security blogs ive been reading i decided i needed a fresh lab environment, so i decided to look into simplifying things to give my VM’s access to the internet. In the past while putting together my Hyper-V cluster environment with a little help i …
This week i have been to IT Expo in Manchester, which is a IT security/cloud/devops conference for IT pros. The event was over two days and was extremely useful for me, it had a number of workshops and speakers talking about a number of subject, ranging from data analytic projects defining if a couple would stay …
I have recently been looking at Microsoft’s Failover Cluster Manager, used to create, validate and manage failover clusters running within Windows Server, i am hoping to put together a more extensive blog post in the future about the setup and configuration of this, but working backwards i guess im going to be looking here at …
So recently i had a very annoying issue with an account that was constantly locking out, i would unlock it and 20 or so minutes later it would lock again, this went on for a few days until i decided enough was enough. Time to find out what the culprit was for this random event, …
So local password management, thats a bit of a pain isn’t it…………., in a domain environment as we all know domain admin accounts can be easily managed via AD, but what about your local server admin accounts, these can become a major weak point within your network, if a hacker was to get local admin …
In this security first world we live in we all know how important it is to patch, however we often just update our Servers, Desktops, Laptops and occasionally our software. In the always online and connected state we are in downtime must be kept to a minimum, so we often forget about patching our networking …
So a while ago i was in a situation were i had to centrally collect logs for auditing purposes, after much testing, poking and prodding i decided to use a piece of open-source software called Graylog2, initially not the easiest software to setup due to it only being available on Linux (not my speciality), but …
