During a restart of the ‘VMware VirtualCenter Server’ service, if a user or group assigned to the Administrator Role at the root folder level could not be verified during the restart the user privelages are revoked. As part of security hardening on the vCenter server, I created a Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) to search for … More Monitoring vCenter privelage reassignment with Nagios XI
By default, you will be able to use your web browser to find and download any files by browsing datastores in the vSphere inventory. In order to disable the datastore browser you will need to edit the ‘vpxd.cfg’ file, to ensure the ‘enableHttpDatastoreAccess’ is set to false, as below: <vpxd> <enableHttpDatastoreAccess>false</enableHttpDatastoreAccess> </vpxd> Once the above configuration … More VMware: Disable Datastore Browser from vCenter
Over at the Watchguard YouTube channel they have released a new video previewing the next release of Fireware (11.9) and a new service named APT Blocker. The APT Blocker service will be available for all WatchGuard Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Next-Gen Firewall platforms and detects advanced persistent threats and zero day evasive malware. The APT Blocker … More Watchguard Fireware 11.9 Preview and APT Blocker
I recently wrote about retrieving hard disks and the SCSI ID using the storage module which is available in Windows 8 and Server 20012 operating systems (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-m7). Now, how would we retrieve this information for operating systems below this version? Well I have a look into this using a selection of WMI methods to retrieve … More RETRIEVING DISK NUMBER AND SCSI ID FOR LOGICAL DISKS USING WMI
I recently wrote about checking the last success time of Windows Update and reporting this to Nagios (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-mj). Now what happens if you do not use Windows Update as your patch management solution. In my case I have been managing the installation of updates using WUInstall (http://www.wuinstall.com). When my updates are installed the registry is … More Monitor WUInstall status in Nagios XI
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