monitor (andoird) devices with bpf: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/sites/default/files/presentations/bcc-scale.pdf

so guess “monitoring” is about two things:

  • availability and performance:
    • detect performance bottlenecks
    • get informed if parts (harddisks) / servers have failed / are about to fail
  • security:
    • detect, report and (if possible) automatically fence off “unusual” network activity such as hacking attacks (DDoS / bruteforce)

… anything i have missed? (scroll down to comment please!)

hardware / software raid monitoring:

https://dwaves.de/2019/09/06/linux-server-monitor-software-raid-mail-notification-on-failure/

linux bash – how to find hardware raid controller – get info about hardware hp server – get RAID and power watt usage status from command line

well hardware raid adapters actually should mail you / beep loud if a harddisk fails… unfortunately this worked for (got it working with LSI MegaRaid but not for Adaptec under Windows 2012 Server, untested for linux (yet))

wishlist: here needs to be a tested script that informs you when a harddisk goes down, that works with hardware-raid and software-raid:

software raid:

https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-configure-software-raid-to-send-an-email-when-something-is-wrong-with-raid

hp hardware raid:

untested: https://networklessons.com/uncategorized/send-e-mail-when-raid-fails-on-hp-proliant-running-linux/

“If you’re running Linux and don’t want to install the full HP management suite, you can develop a script around the cciss_vol_status utility to query controller/disk status. Also see: Installing HP Agents on OpenFiler” (src)

self made:

this script will output and follow changes to all log files on your server / workstation… very basic but can be handy to “checkout what the blackbox is currently doing”.

cat /scripts/mon_all_logs.sh 
#!/bin/bash

find /var/log/ -type f \( -name "*" \) ! -path '*.gz*' -exec tail -n0 -f "$file" {} +

basic server monitoring:

http://jperrin.org/centos/monitoring/grafana/keeping-an-eye-on-centos-performance-with-grafana/

for webservers: https://vestacp.com/ comes with a nice basic dashboard:

collectd,

cacti

SHELL is using:

https://www.splunk.com/

Features Splunk Free Splunk Light Splunk Enterprise Splunk Cloud
Maximum Daily Indexing Volume 500MB 20GB Unlimited Unlimited
Maximum Users 1 5 Unlimited Unlimited
Universal Data Collection/ Indexing        
Metrics Store        
Data Collection Add-Ons        
Monitoring and Alerting      
Dashboards and Reports        
Search and Analysis        
Event Annotation        
Automatic Data Enrichment        
Anomaly Detection        
Tables, Data Models and Pivot      
Splunkbase Apps   App for AWS (only)    
Splunk Premium Solutions    
High Availability    
Disaster Recovery    
Clustering    
Distributed Search    
Performance Acceleration    
Access Control User and Admin only Granular and Customizable Granular and Customizable
Single Sign-On/LDAP    
Developer Environment Full access to APIs and SDKs Full access to APIs and SDKs
Support Community Standard Enterprise/Global Enterprise/Global

 

“The UBA anomalies can be used for multiple SIEM workflows to deter and resolve threats quicker and with greater precision. Hunters and analysts can now use the UBA detected anomalies as a source type within Splunk ES as a starting point of the investigation, do ad hoc searching and pivot for detailed Incident Review and Breach Analysis.”

src: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/features-comparison-chart.html

FireEye

https://www.fireeye.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireEye

Unlike other vendors that provide raw threat data, FireEye delivers high-fidelity intelligence derived from numerous sources across the globe, including human intelligence, open sources, active community engagement, connections to the threat underground and criminal marketplaces, and real-time data collected from a variety of technical sources.

The following are some of the major IOCs we can download and scan/alert on:

  • Network: A list of blacklisted IPs throughout the world.
  • File MD5: A list of Malicious file MD5sums.
  • URL: A list of malicious URLs.

src: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/products-and-services/2017/06/enterprise-forensics-isight-intelligence.html

http://fortune.com/tag/feye/

https://www.rsa.com/

SpaceX is using:

ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK stack)

Links:

https://www.graylog.org/

tools to grafically monitor/output/process all that collected sar-service data.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

http://www.trickytools.com/php/sar2rrd.php

http://www.zabbix.com/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/zabbix/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/

https://www.linode.com/docs/uptime/monitoring/install-nagios-4-on-ubuntu-debian-8

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Munin/
https://www.icinga.com/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ksar/ – needs Java JRE

https://sourceforge.net/directory/system-administration/sysadministration/os:linux/

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Netzwerk-Monitoring/

https://dwaves.de/2017/06/27/200-1-measure-and-troubleshoot-resource-usage/

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