ZoneMinder powered by Symetricore

The following are some tips on how to use your ZoneMinder AMI powered by Symetricore on the AWS Marketplace. SSH login user Username: ubuntu No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key. ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip ZoneMinder web admin Access to ZoneMinder is via a web browser at http://public-ip/zm ZoneMinder administrator account. username: admin password: aws-instance-id The instance id is…

Read More

WordPress® powered by Symetricore (4.5.x)

The following are the usernames and  access information  for WordPress powered by Symetricore on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace. This applies to version 4.5.x of WordPress. SSH login user Username: ubuntu No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip WordPress Access to WordPress is via a web browser at http://public-ip WordPress administrator account. username: admin…

Read More

WordPress® powered by Symetricore (4.4.x)

The following are the usernames and  access information  for WordPress powered by Symetricore on the AWS Marketplace. This applies to version 4.4.x of WordPress. SSH login user Username: ubuntu No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip WordPress Access to WordPress is via a web browser at http://public-ip Navigate to your IP address to complete installation.…

Read More

OSClass® powered by Symetricore

The following are some tips on how to use your Osclass AMI powered by Symetricore on the AWS Marketplace. SSH login user Username: ubuntu No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key. ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip Osclass web admin Access to the Osclass admin panel is via a web browser at http://public-ip/oc-admin Osclass administrator account. username: admin password: aws-instance-id The instance id…

Read More

Cacti powered by Symetricore

The following are some tips on how to use your Cacti AMI powered by Symetricore on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace. SSH login user Username: ubuntu No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key. ssh -i mykey.pem ubuntu@public-ip Cacti web admin Access to Cacti is via a web browser at http://public-ip Cacti administrator account. username: admin password: aws-instance-id The…

Read More

Enable SNMP for Cacti (Ubuntu)

Monitoring of servers is very important in any IT environment. It’s important to know when a device is down before people start calling you or that a hard drive is full before the operating system stops  responding. It allows you as a system admin to be proactive about the state of your network. Cacti needs SNMP to be up and running to be able to monitor properly. The following describes the steps…

Read More

How to install SSL certificates (Ubuntu)

This guide is for Symetricore products available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace that come preconfigured with self-signed SSL certificates. This should be in the documentation for the product. A simple test of whether this is the type of product can be made by the way you access the product. If you are using web access that is something like http://a.b.c.d then you are not using SSL. The you…

Read More

Unattended upgrades (Ubuntu 14.04)

Contents1 Configure Automatic Updates Ubuntu 14.04LTS1.1 Configure unattended-upgrades1.2  Enable automatic updates2 Notifications (Optional) Configure Automatic Updates Ubuntu 14.04LTS We suggest that you enable automatic updates for your AMI instance. At the least you should enable security updates. To get started install the unattended upgrades package sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades Configure unattended-upgrades sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades adjust the following to fit your needs. The configuration below will only install urgent security updates. If you…

Read More

How to set up SSH Keys

Using SSH Keys SSH keys provide a more secure way of logging into a your server using SSH rather than using a password alone. A password could be cracked using a brute force attack or a dictionary attack. SSH keys on the other hand are very long and complex and will provide much better security. Generating an SSH key pair  (public and a private key) provides a these long keys. It works…

Read More

How to Monitor Disk Stats With Cacti

Contents1 Disk space utilization1.1 hrStorageTable (.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3)1.2 dskTable (.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9)2 Cacti configuration2.1 How to collect hrStorageTable from a device2.2 Create graphs3 Monitoring disk I/O operations3.1 Download the configuration4 Install the configuration files5 Switch to 64-bit counters5.1 Start monitoring5.2 Interpreting the results Disk space utilization You need to be aware of two MIBs which can be used for monitoring disk space. hrStorageTable (.1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.3) This comes from HOST-RESOURCES-MIB and is the “standard” way of…

Read More