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Network Analysis
This Shelf is for anything related to Network Analysis
Command Line / Shells
Anything related to the use of command line tools such as bash or powershell
IT/Network Management
Anything related to Managing a network or technology
Automation
This Shelf will have books that deal with automation like Terraform and Ansible
Wireshark & Tshark
How to do network Analysis with Wireshark and Tshark
Configuring DC to Sync Time with External NTP Server
How to set the DC to sync with an internet time server or NTP server external to the network
Managing Ubuntu Server 20.04
Anything related to managing Ubuntu Server 20.04
Managing pi-hole DNS Server
Anything to do with pi-hole DNS
Rearm Evaluation License Windows Server
How to Re-Arm Windows Evaluation License
Managing Cisco Devices
In this book, I will cover enabling SSH on a cisco device and just a few tweaks for added security. Also this book will cover other topics like AAA model and overall management of the device
Convert XVA Virtual Machine to VMDK
This book will cover how to convert a VM exported from Xen Orchestra in XVA format to a VMDK.
Reverse DNS Record Windows
Rename and Domain Join Ansible Play
This book will cover how I automated my domain join for the globomantics domain
1. Installing XVA-img
These are the instructions on how to install the XVA-img tool which is updated and patched for checksum and xxhash
2. Extracting the XVA to Raw Disk
In this Chapter, I will cover how to use xva-img to extract the disk from the XVA file to a raw disk which will later be converted to a VMDK
3. Convert disk.raw to VMDK
This chapter will discuss how to take the extracted raw disk from the XVA file and convert it to a vmdk
1.1 Importing Profiles
Importing a profile: There are many ways you can go about this, but for this guide, I will provide a link where I downloaded a profile called better default. You can change the layout once you import this profile. Link to Better Default profile - https://www...
1.2 Customizing Profiles
This profile is going to be the default that is used, however, keep in mind, this will be dictated by your environment and the type of hunt you are doing. You can tweak them all to your liking, however, this will server as a baseline. This is really more of a...
1.3 Adding Filters / Columns
Creating Search Filters / Columns: This is very useful and will save you time in the long run. What we want to accomplish here is creating your most common filters of data you think you will most likely be looking to dissect out of the pcap. Where to Start A...
1.4 Using Tshark for a Deeper Dive
A Closer Look: This is not going to be a deep dive into T-Shark, however, what this will show is where you can start taking the same data that we were searching for in the above scenario of looking for user agents. Given this pcap doesn’t have a large amount o...
Configure NTP with w32tm.exe
OBJECTIVE: To configure the Domain Controller to use an external NTP server to keep time reliable and accurate. STEP 1: Open command prompt as an administrator and enter the following command w32tm.exe /config /manualpeerlist:"0.pool.ntp.org,0x8 1.pool.ntp.o...
Disabling IPv6 address on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa step by step instructions
Objective: To disable ipv6 where it is persistent among reboots In case you need more permanent solution to disable IPv6 even after system reboot follow the steps below:STEP 1: As an administrative user open up the /etc/default/grub file using your favorite ...
Removing cloud-init from Ubuntu 20.04
Objective: To disable or remove cloud-init from your ubuntu 20.04 ServerMethod 1: Disable cloud-init from file This is the safest and the easiest method. We only need to create cloud-init.disabled file in /etc/cloud directory and reboot the system. To cr...
DNSMASQ_WARN reducing DNS packet size
Objective: Get rid of the warnings in the Admin Web Interface "reducing DNS packet size for nameserver OpenDNS Resolver to 1280"STEP 1: You can get rid of the warning by adding a config file like /etc/dnsmasq.d/99-edns.conf and using an editor like nano or vi...
Change Password for Web interface
Objective: Change the login password for the Web Interface for piHole. STEP 1: You can change the password by logging in via console or ssh to your pihole server and running the following command sudo pihole -a -p
How to Extend Evaluation License
Objective: To extend the windows server evaluation license for extended use after 180 days The evaluation versions of Windows Server are valid for 180 days by default and can be extended. To extend the evaluation period the following steps can be used: STEP...
Enabling SSH
It always starts with the generation of a public/private keypair that will be only used for the SSH-process. In this command we use a dedicated label "SSH-KEY" which we later assign to the SSH-config. The default-keylength is typically too small, it's time to ...
Usernames and Passwords
There are different ways in IOS to configure users with corresponding passwords. For SSH, the Router/Switch doesn't need the cleartext password. That means you should not configure your users with switch(config)#username USER password PASS Better configu...
Preparing Your Machine
1.1 Installing xva-img from source
Objective: Install xve-image from source on an ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine in order to convert from XVA to a VMDK to be imported in VMWorkstation Step 1. Navigate to eriklax/xva-img: XVA (Citrix Xen format) virtual disk tool. Supports RAW disk image exports and ...
2.1 Extract the XVA File to Raw Disk
Objective: Extract the disk from the from the XVA to a raw disk to be converted to VMDK. Step 1. Navigate to a location that you would like to work from. In my scenario, I am working from my user's home directory in a folder name 'XVA VMs' Belows is a screen...
3.1 Convert the disk.raw file to a VMDK
Objective: Use qemu-img to convert the raw disk extracted from the XVA file in our working directory to a vmdk file for the ability to import in VMWare. Step 1. Navigate to a location that you would like to work from. In my scenario, I am working from my user...
Windows DNS Reverse Zone 1 Text - Config Module
Below is an example of YAML to modify "windows_dns::zones": '#{subnet.inAddrArpa}': ensure: "present" "windows_dns::records": '#{int in subnet.nics}': '#{int.ip}_PTR': ensure: 'present' type: 'PTR' node: '#{int.ip}' ...
Preparing the VMs
Deploy the VMs For this little experiment. I am deploying from template from a Windows 10 VM. I have not figured out how to make the interface profile stay private with any persistence and it is annoying. Any way, so the steps are simple. Deploy from Tem...