OPNsense NetFlow and EventLog configuration

OPNsense is an open-source, FreeBSD-based firewall distro. It provides a modern GUI and numerous plugins. A great plus is its ease of use, in contrast to some other open-source firewalls in the past. Also, OPNsense is a fork of Pfsense (we ...

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NetVizura on Raspberry Pi 4

NetVizura is a complex software composed of a few databases, Tomcat, and a lot of code, supported on Windows and numerous Linux distributions for AMD64 architecture. With the advent of 8GB RAM RPI 4, there have been numerous projects using this versi...

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NetFlow probe – a real-world example

Usually, our customers configure NetFlow export directly on their devices (routers, switches, firewalls, etc). But in case the company policy (especially in Asian countries) prevents enabling export on devices, or if devices are not capable of export...

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NetVizura Ubuntu upgrade

Since Ubuntu 16.04 is approaching its end-of-life (you can, of course, extend it with ESM though that's another story), there is a need to keep your system up-to-date. Unlike CentOS and Red Hat, which don't support in-place upgrades, Ubuntu (and Debi...

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Elasticsearch Windows upgrade

The Elasticsearch upgrade process is somewhat straightforward. Download the upgrade, apply it, and then restart the Elasticsearch service. However, in NetVizura we are not using elastic-licensed Elasticsearch but apache-licensed installation. Elastic...

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Elasticsearch backup and restore

NoSQL databases differ in almost every aspect when compared to traditional RDBMS. While classic DBs (such as PostgreSQL) have, for example, dumps, Elasticsearch has the snapshotting capability that can be good in some cases but overwhelming in others...

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NetVizura and Tomcat reverse proxy and SSL configuration

Sometimes we want to limit the availability of the NetVizura application and add additional security layers. Reverse proxy and SSL configuration are here to ensure this. A reverse proxy is an application that forwards requests from client to server, ...

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NetVizura and Elasticsearch - How we did it?

Elasticsearch is a NoSQL database, usually used as a search engine. However, with its powerful logic, it can be used for pretty much anything. In our case, we have used Elasticsearch to hold aggregated NetFlow data. As we are incorporating it step by...

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Elasticsearch as Big Data analytics tool

Every day approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated. Data comes from a vast majority of different sources. This data is referred to as Big Data. Most of the time, Big Data is unstructured and doesn't make sense when presented as raw d...

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PostgreSQL upgrade (version 9.6 to version 12)

PostgreSQL (commonly known as Postgres) is a well-known, solid as a rock database. And yes, from time to time it craves for an upgrade too. Today we will learn something about PostgreSQL Windows upgrade from version 9.6 to 12. KEEP IN MIND: As a...

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