Monitoring with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Beats…

Well, We are going to make a series of documents where I am going to show you the necessary steps to have a fully skilled and functional real-time monitoring solution. We will base ourselves on the multiple options that the mythical Elastic Stack will give us, made up of Elasticsearch-type tools, Logshtash, Kibana and of course Beats packs. There will be a few posts, I hope you enjoy them, Let's freak out 😉

Checking the Health of Citrix VDA Machines with Centreon

All of us who work with Citrix environments know about the criticality of VDA machines, A very simple way to know your health, will be monitored with Centreon. We will be able to know the status of the VDA agent of the machines, On the one hand, you get VDA machines that have registration problems with the Delivery Controller, and also interesting if we have one in maintenance mode.

Putting Tasmota in a SonOff with a Raspberry Pi

Well, after a while tinkering with these wonderful devices, I wanted to share with you some steps that you may need. The SonOffs are small Wifi modules based on ESP8266 with a relay. Ideal for remotely controlling a lamp… or whatever we need to turn off and on remotely. In this post we will see how to flash them and change the firmware and install Tasmota with a Raspberry Pi; sincerely, I found it to be the simplest option of all the ones I tried and it works with all SonOffs.

Managing KeePass passwords on Nextcloud

Another post where we are going to integrate another interesting feature into Nextcloud! If you are fond of having your passwords stored in a password manager, you may work with KeePass, If that's the case, that you know, that we can access the password file remotely and fully integrated into the Nextcloud interface, A blast. Strong and encrypted passwords, accessible at all times!

Installing phpIPAM

Good, In this post we are going to see the steps we need to follow to have phpIPAM installed correctly, at the end we will have an excellent IP address manager! A utility based on php that will allow us to control the IP addresses of our company through a web interface, we will be able to analyze and understand the ranges we have by seeing consumptions, Inventories of the different devices, Existing VLANs, Subnets…