Splunkd High CPU after leap second addition?
January 1, 2017
Had my alerting system yell at me about high CPU load on my Splunk Free VM;
Minecraft Local Server Discovery – Can’t find LAN games?
December 31, 2016
I had a problem where I couldn’t find LAN games automatically on my local network in Minecraft. Turns out that the problem was due to the interface priority on my network interfaces, and Minecraft was binding to the wrong interface!
Powershell Remoting for Non-Domain Test Machines
December 7, 2016
NOTE - This isn’t particularly secure, but it works. It’s a bit better than configuring WinRM in unencrypted mode though.
Netflow Collector on Splunk – Interesting Bug
December 6, 2016
The Splunk Add-on for Netflow appears to have a bug. If you run through the configure.sh script accept all the defaults, it refuses to ingest any Netflow data.
Splunk integration with Docker
November 16, 2016
I’ve changed over my log aggregation system from ElasticStack to Splunk Free over the past few days. The primary driver for this is that I use Splunk at work, and since Splunk Free allows 500Mb/day of ingestion, that’s plenty for all my home stuff. So, using Splunk at home means I gain valuable experience at using Splunk professionally.
NGINX Rate Limiting for Unsecured Apps
November 3, 2016
Some applications don’t properly support IP blackholing in the case of failed login attempts. There’s a few ways to handle that, but one nice way is to make use of nginx in the front of the application to apply rate limiting.