Cisco IOS – Disable Auto-state on VLAN
Force a vlan to remain in up up state, even when not trunked or assigned to an active interface. (Handy if you use a remote vlan for network monitoring) conf t int vlan 90 no autostate no shutdown
NGINX WordPress – Permalinks
Fairly easy and straightforward. Modify your location block as per below… location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; }
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Hello, My name is Keith Rose and I’m a Zimbabwean IT Systems Engineer & overall geek. This site serves as both my digital CV and my ‘think pad’ :- where i share tips & tricks from my day to day experiences. Please feel free to become a subscriber if you find my works useful, and […]
New Adventures
Today (March 31 2017) marked my last day with NITS Zimbabwe (www.nationalit.co.zw) It has been my pleasure serving you for the past 8 years and I am confident that you will continue to receive the utmost service and professionalism from NITS. I want to thank you all for the opportunity to serve your needs and […]
ZOLPhone Balance & Usage Check script
ZOL Zimbabwe operate a voip platform – HERE If you work with a number of DID’s, it quickly becomes tedious to login to the portal and check your online balance/usage. After a colleague sent me his perl script getting the balance off the CRM’s portal, i gave it a shot through bash. Here is the […]
Linux SSH Daemon Brute Force Protection
To effectively block an SSH Bruteforce, we need to slow down the rate an attacker can connect to our SSH Server. Since most attacks are automated, the bots will likely give up after experiencing consistent timeouts after failing to login. The script below will block an IP if it connects to SSH more than 3 […]
SFOS – Captive Portal causing excess traffic over WAN
I have noticed that Sophos 16 seems to have a problem with the way it’s captive portal works. If enabled (firewall policy set to drop), it seems to generate excessive amounts of traffic over my links to the remote branches. Screenshot below shows the traffic when captive portal is enabled, and you can see the […]
Proxmox – Remove LVM local-data
I’m a big Proxmox fan, having deployed more than 20 systems both at customers and on my home lab this year without drama. However, the Proxmox LVM structure bugs the heck out of me. I prefer to utilize a single LVM Volume due to some weird glitches with LXC images and small root LVM partitions. […]
Howto reset Mac OS X User Password
Recently had to reset a password on a macbook. Here’s the TL;DR of it Hold Command + S on startup to get to single user mode. Wait for the root prompt. Enter the following commands. Replace ‘username’ with your account name. e.g Keith # mount -uw / # launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist # password username # […]
FreePBX – Yealink Phonebook Generator | BASH
After deploying a few PBX’s, you get bored of manually generating the required XML for remote phonebooks on Yealink Handsets. Here’s the first version of the phonebook.xml creation script. (Works on FPBX without any hitches) Observe the notes in the code please. If you’d like a more updated version, please check my github repo here. […]