Home and Lab Network Infrastructure
Reviewing the network infrastructure, planning a massive overhaul and improvement. Thoughts and problems.
Category: Home Lab
AD Monitoring and Dashboards
Monitoring Active Directory is a vital task to detect issues before they impact users. Some older protocols are known to be insecure, so lets identify them so we can rectify them.
Upgrade ESXi/vCenter to v7
Trials and tribulations of upgrading the homelab to vSphere 7. Joys of running older hardware meant CPUs are unsupported, but there is a way around this!
Tenable Nessus deployment
Basic deployment of Tenable Nessus vulnerability scanner. Real basic and need to go back and start fixing things.
Rebuilding the home lab – Part 5
Further progression and ramblings on the rebuild of the home lab. It’s now in a state where it’s working as I would expect it to be.
Graylog central logging
I have heard a lot of good things about Graylog for central logging within an AD environment. Decided to deploy and see what’s what. The dashboards/alerts are still to come but the core is there.
Rebuilding the home lab – Part 4
Further progress on the home lab rebuild. It’s getting there. Still a little way to go though.
Rebuilding the home lab – Part 3
Day 5 Arrgghhh things not going so well at the moment. The second ESXi host won’t boot and the second Hyper-V host isn’t booting. Both of them failing POST and coming up with a red light on the front. It looks like at least one of them is a faulty Mezzanine card. It looks like […]
Brand new forest, PingCastle
PingCastle is an audit tool that helps you build a prioritised list of issues that need addressing in Active Directory. See how I’ve used it in a ‘box fresh’ domain.
Rebuilding the home lab – Part 2
Second stage of rebuilding the home lab. Few more hiccups. Little more progress.