Tacacs and LDAP Integration

Tacacs+ doesn’t support LDAP authentication by default, but it does support PAM authentication.but you still must define users in your tac_plus.conf, and you must still define groups in tac_plus.conf. Install Required package libpam0g-dev. Create folder for tacac configuration file on /etc/tacacs Download tacacs package from Extract tacacs package go to extracted folder, Now, we will […]

Install Tacacs Server Ubuntu

Tacacs+ is an open-standard protocol compatible across various networking equipment vendor platforms. Tacacs+ is a TCP based entirely new protocol used for AAA 1. Install the required packages 2. Create folder for tacac configuration file on /etc/tacacs 3. Download tacacs package from and extract tacacs package 4. Go to extracted folder, Now, we will configure and build the […]

6wind Ansible NETCONF Automation

Ansible supports configuring remote hosts using NETCONF (instead of the default SSH connection along with Linux shell commands). This guide explains how to leverage Ansible to configure multiple Virtual Service Router instances. Dependencies This guide assumes that you have two (or more) Virtual Service Router instances that are booted and accessible on the network (NETCONF […]

Install FreeIPA Fedora 40

FreeIPA is an integrated security information management solution combining Linux (Fedora), 389 Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS, Dogtag (Certificate System). It consists of a web interface and command-line administration tools. FreeIPA requires access to the following ports for the services listed below: Ports Service Protocol 80, 443 HTTP/HTTPS TCP 389, 636 LDAP/LDAPS TCP 88, […]

Mellanox Connect x4 SRIOV Ubuntu 22.04

SRIOV-CNI support Mellanox ConnectX®-4 Lx and ConnectX®-5 adapter cards. To enable SR-IOV functionality the following steps are required:1.Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter (HCA/NIC) installed. 1- Enable SR-IOV in the NIC’s Firmware. Installing Mellanox Management Tools (MFT) or mstflint is a pre-requisite, MFT can be downloaded from http://www.mellanox.com/page/management_tools Download the mft package […]

PROXMOX SNMP Monitoring with libreNMS

Proxmox Virtual Environment is based on Debian GNU/Linux we use apt package manager to install snmpd server. Login to Proxmox Machine with SSH check snmpd status edit snmpd configuration edit the following line The line agentaddress udp:161 tells the SNMP Daemon to listen on UDP port 161 on every IPv4 interface. The line rocommunity public […]

Install Node Exporter on Ubuntu

This node exporter was installed on Ubuntu 22.04 Creating the User Unpack the package downloaded Install Node Exporter Setup the Node Exporter service Add the following below NOTE: CHANGE “<PORT>” TO ANY PORT NUMBER DESIRED e.g 9xxx Reload Systemd Enable node exporter on startup verify the node exporter is running