Monitoring

Parsing ASA logs using ELK and my central syslog archive

November 30, 2015July 28, 2019 Ed Goad 3 Comments

Previously, I had setup a centralized syslog archive and directed all of my network devices to report into it. This

Linux Monitoring

Monitoring Squid with Zenoss

September 29, 2011 Ed Goad 0 Comments

I recently realized that even though I was monitoring my Squid “system” very well, I wasnt monitoring Squid well. I

Linux Monitoring

Sending email from syslog events

March 11, 2011 Ed Goad 1 Comment

Historically, I have been monitoring my F5 devices using syslog and Zenoss. Syslog on the F5 devices forwards to my

Monitoring

Synchronizing ZenPacks across multiple collectors

April 20, 2009 Ed Goad 0 Comments

I have setup multiple Zenoss collectors in my environment, and one of the issue I ran into was keeping the

Monitoring

Configuring multiple Zenoss collectors

April 8, 2009 Ed Goad 3 Comments

This post discusses how to configure multiple Zenoss collectors for centralized monitoring and alerting. These instructions are inspired by http://www.zenoss.com/Members/fdeckert/how-to-install-distributed-collectors/.

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Authenticating to APIs part 2

Continuing our discussion of authenticating to APIs to better keep our authentication tokens safe. Using the Python ConfigParser module to store passwords and tokens in a separate file, and then accessing them programmatically.

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Authenticating to APIs part 1

Introduction to using APIs that require authentication. Walking through the GitHub API documentation, creating a Personal Access Token for GitHub, and authenticating against their API.

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Continuing our use of the HaveIBeenPwned API and using this in a more dynamic Python script. This allows us to automatically look for a specific password and return its status to the user.

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Using the HaveIBeenPwned public API to test passwords for security. Validating if passwords have been found in online security breaches before.

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An introduction to working with JSON data returned from APIs. Specifically, creating a script to find out how many people are in space at this moment, and then parsing the JSON data to make it readable and accessible

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