Projects to Learn Linux
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@JaredBusch said:
@johnhooks said:
I just finished setting up an ELK server. Much less painful than I expected
Mine was horribly painful a year ago. I haven't come back to it. My problem was trying to go CentOS 7 when it was too new. If I had done CentOS 6 then, it would likely have been simple.
I was the same, about 3 months ago I started one, but ran into road blocks.. haven't gone back yet.
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I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Few things on Linux are ever as painful as people imagine that they will be.
That was me before- I thought it was very painful, but as time goes by I discovered it's not that painful if you're already familiar or at least you already know the command.
And I need to do work more to improve my knowledge. Looking forward to start working on learning Linux projects. -
@dafyre said:
I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.
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@scottalanmiller Thanks.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.
That's the one I used.
If you want to cheat, they have a one click installer
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Definitely no need to build your own from scratch. They have they prebuilt for you.
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I tried to Spin it up on CentOS7 at home last night... I got it almost working, but I'm still missing something aparently...
Where's that one-click installer at? I didn't see it anywhere...
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When you go to build a new machine on Digital Ocean, you select ELK as the VM type.
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Here you go...
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Calling it a "one click installer" is very confusing. It's nothing like that. It's a pre-built image.
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@scottalanmiller Ah, this would be my problem... I'm trying to build it myself, lol. Once I can deploy it by hand, then I'd look at a DO droplet or the like.
Learn it the hard way first, that way when you break it from the one-click-installer, you can at least go digging to figure out why it broke.
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So I got my own ELK stack installed in my meager office lab... It wasn't too teribly bad... I enjoy using the most recent packages when I (attempt) to build something, so I used the latest & greatest betas out for Logstash and Elastic. A few quick googles and I was good. 8-)
Now to replicate this on my home server which arguably sees more traffic than my office test setup, lol.
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Just finished installing Mediawiki on Centos
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I want to install next is Logging Server
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ELK is definitely the way to go. So powerful!
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That DO article left out some steps about allowing Firewall rules for some of the ports, I think. I've bee na few days since I've looked at it... I have noticed that I need to set the Kiban4 and logstash processes to restart once a day or the whole thing stops.
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@scottalanmiller said:
ELK is definitely the way to go. So powerful!
I'm stuck in here :
create and edit a new yum repository file for Elasticsearch:
sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repoAdd the following repository configuration:
/etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo**** [elasticsearch-1.4]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 1.4.x packages
baseurl=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/1.4/centos
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1****
