In this post I am going to quickly cover what is needed to get Curator up and running on the ELK stack. In the last few posts about the ELK stack I covered everything needed to get it installed, configured Continue reading
This post is going to be a sort of a follow up to my ELK 5 on Ubuntu 16.04 series. I am going to cover some of the lessons I have learned over the last few months of maintaining a Continue reading
In this third and final part of my VMware series, I go over all of the basics of getting the VMware vCenter 6.5 Server Appliance up and running. Everything that I show in the video can be done with the Continue reading
I recently went to deploy a new Powershell based Startup script in my test environment, and while the majority of my Windows machines happily complied, 2 of my test servers that were running Remote Desktop Services did not like the Continue reading
In this video I go over all of the basics of getting up and running with my favorite hypervisor, VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5. Here is a quick run down of everything covered: Where to install ESXi, hard drive or USB Continue reading
In this video I give a quick break down of some of the key features and differences between VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5 and VMware vCenter 6.5. I also give a quick demonstration of what it looks like when both ESXi Continue reading
In this series of posts I am going to cover everything needed to get Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) up and running on Ubuntu 16.04. In the videos I use the desktop version of Ubuntu, but the process should be Continue reading
In the previous two posts I went over everything from installing Ubuntu to getting the ELK stack setup and ingesting logs from itself. Now in this final post in the series I am going to cover collecting Windows Event and Continue reading
In part one of this series, I went over the basics of installing and configuring Ubuntu 16.04. Now in this part, I am going to take that same VM and go over everything needed to create a functional ELK stack Continue reading
In this post I am going to cover the steps needed to install and configure Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop as the base operating system for what is going to become the ELK Stack server. My intention with this first post is Continue reading