Install OSSIM/OSSEC agent (CentOS 7)
I couldn’t find proper instructions on doing this anywhere so here are mine: In your OSSIM portal go to Environment -> Assets & Groups -> Add Assets and enter the name/IP of the asset you...
View ArticleVPS Benchmarks: Amazon EC2 and Lightsail, Azure, DigitalOcean, Google,...
I recently needed to have a look at moving some services to a different VPS provider for redundancy so I decided to benchmark my options to compare them. The plan selected was whichever had 16GB of...
View ArticleInstall MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 8
I couldn’t get the various instructions using the MySQL community repo to work, so if you’re in the same boat try this: Get the 5.6 bundle from mysql.com: wget...
View ArticleInstall PHP 7.4 on CentOS 8
This is surprisingly simple if you don’t want to mess around with multiple versions and just switch to 7.4. Run as root: # dnf -y module reset php# dnf -y module install php:7.4 Then in my...
View ArticleInstall/Update OSSIM/OSSEC agent (AlmaLinux 8.6 or CentOS)
This is an update to the previous CentOS installation of OSSEC 3.6 ( here https://cheesefather.com/2020/06/install-ossim-ossec-agent-centos-7/), updating it to 3.7. You need one more library installed...
View ArticleVPS Benchmarks update: Amazon EC2 and Lightsail, Azure, Contabo,...
This is an update to the original 2020 benchmarks post with a new Provider Contabo (the only slight difference is that this provider is based in Postsmouth in the UK, everyone else on the list has a...
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Add custom icons to MeshCentral
MeshCentral is great, but the icons are a little Windows 7. Luckily, the author Ylian Saint-Hilaire has added a simple way to change them. Go to your MeshCentral installation folder and navigate to...
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Add custom icons to MeshCentral (part 2 – night mode)
Following on from part 1 I have updated the icons for night mode, if you edit config.json (in C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\meshcentral-data in my installation) and update the domains...
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Add custom icons to MeshCentral (part 3 – styles)
Carrying on from part 2 (night mode), if you copy the stylesheet style.css from C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\node_modules\meshcentral\public\styles (in my installation) to our custom...
View ArticleInstall MeshCentral agent on Alpine Linux
To install in Alpine Linux you need a specific installer that doesn’t need glibc so download that from your MeshCentral server (replace meshcentral-server.com with your server url): # wget...
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