Arpwatch

Arpwatch is a classic, a tool that we can implement in our organization in less than a minute. Its operation is very simple, It will send us an alert when it detects a new computer on the network, or a new MAC or MAC change. Ideal for detecting intruders or unwanted visitors on different network segments.

Collecting Windows metrics in Elasticsearch with Metricbeat and visualizing with Grafana

In this post, we'll look at another of Elasticsearch's wonderful components, within the Beats packages we will also find a utility that will help us to process and collect metrics from our Windows or Linux computers, known as Metricbeat. We will see how to export these metrics to Logstash to process them and store them in Elasticsearch to later visualize them with Kibana or Grafana!

Nagstamon

One of the great utilities that we usually have installed to control our environment in real time is Nagstamon, This app installed at our kiosks, it will notify us when any monitoring item generates an alert. Integrates seamlessly into the Windows taskbar or anywhere in the workstation, also on computers with MacOS or Linux! We can use it to bypass email alerts if we are interested!

Citrix ShareFile Sync and Citrix ShareFile Outlook Plug-in

In the previous document we already saw how to deploy a ShareFile infrastructure with the information in our own DPC, In this document we will look at the part on how to access this information; we'll look at the Citrix ShareFile client, the different methods of access and their possibilities. We can install it on Windows, Mac, ios, Android and if not, we will access it through the magnificent web client!

Forcing a MAC address on a VMware VM

Sometimes we have the need to change the MAC address in a virtual machine, usually when we want to keep the MAC that we had on a physical computer or for reasons of applications that control it (license servers..). In this document we will see how to force a MAC address on a VM since VMware will allow us only the next range: 00:50:56:00:00:00 – 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF.