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CONFIGURING CISCO SITE TO SITE IPSEC VPN WITH DYNAMIC IP ENDPOINT CISCO ROUTERS

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Thanks to: http://www.firewall.cx/ ISAKMP (Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol) and  IPSec  are essential to building and encrypting the VPN tunnel. ISAKMP, also called IKE (Internet Key Exchange), is the negotiation protocol that allows two hosts to agree on how to build an IPsec security association. ISAKMP negotiation consists of two phases: Phase 1 and Phase 2.   Phase 1 creates the first tunnel, which protects later ISAKMP negotiation messages. Phase 2 creates the tunnel that protects data.  IPSec then comes into play to encrypt the data using encryption algorithms and provides authentication, encryption and anti-replay services.   IPSEC VPN REQUIREMENTS To help make this an easy-to-follow exercise, we have split it into two required steps to get the Site-to-Site IPSec Dynamic IP Endpoint VPN Tunnel to work. These steps are: (1)  Configure  ISAKMP  (ISAKMP Phase 1) (2)  Configure  IPSec   (ISAKMP Phase 2, ACLs, Crypto MAP) Our example setup

The Basics of Windows Server 2008 FSRM (File Server Resource Manager)

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Thanks to: http://blogs.technet.com/ Overview FSRM (File Server Resource Manager) is a service of the File Services role in Windows Server 2008. You can use FSRM to enhance your ability to manage and monitor storage activities on your file server. The main capabilities of FSRM include: Folder Quotas File Screening Storage Reports Event Log Integration E-mail Notifications Automated Scripts For example, you can use FSRM to perform the following tasks: Limit the size of a folder to 2GB and log an event when the Quota limit is reached. E-mail an administrator whenever a specific folder reaches 85% of its specified Quota. Create a File Screen to prevent users from saving of video/audio files to a share and send notifications when users attempt to do that. Schedule and publish a periodic storage reports that shows how much space is being used by each user. Generate an instant storage reports to list the largest files on a share. Automatically execute a script when a

How to install Graylog2 on Ubuntu 14.04

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Thanks to: http://www.itzgeek.com/ Graylog ( formerly known as Graylog2 ) is an open source log management platform, helps you to collect, index and analyze any machine logs on a centralized location. This guide helps you to install Graylog2 on Ubuntu 14.04, also focus on installation of four other components that makes Graylog2 a power full log management tool. Components: 1. MongoDB – Stores the configurations and meta information. 2. Elasticsearch – Stores the log messages and offers a searching facility, nodes should have high memory as all the I/O operations are happens here. 3. GrayLog – Log parser, it collect the logs from various inputs. 4. GrayLog Web interface = provides you the web-based portal for managing the logs. Prerequisites: Since the Elasticsearch is based on java, we would require to install either openJDK or Oracle JDK. It is recommended to  install Oracle JDK , verify the java version by using the following command. $ java -version java version