SuSE 15 SP3 BMR Restore and Disaster Recovery

by Ramses Soto-Navarro ramses@sotosystems.com, 8/16/2021


Overview
Rescue Boot
Rescue Network
Backup Rsync
Backup Squashfs
Recovery Format


Overview

Brief bulletpoints on BMR backup restore and disaster recovery for SuSE 15 SP3. The procedure is the same for the previous release SuSE 12 SP5. Audience is experienced Linux systems administrators.

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Tripwire Installation for SuSE 15

by Ramses Soto-Navarro ramses@sotosystems.com, 7/26/2021


Overview
Installation
Generate Keys
Initialize
Check Files


Overview

Brief notes on how to install and run tripwire on SuSE Enterprise Linux SLE 15. Tripwire checksums critical files in a database. Afterward you can inspect the checksum for files that have changed or files that have been breached. So for example, files in /bin/ should never change unless an upgrade was performed; Tripwire can scan daily for delicate files changed; a good security intrusion detection software.

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Custom Log Checker

by Ramses Soto-Navarro ramses@sotosystems.com, 4/27/2021


Overview
The Script
Crontab


Overview

Brief explanation of a log check bash script which alerts when there are too many log errors per day. It parses a set of words to search at the end of the day; counts the number of occurrences; then if a max number is surpassed, send an Email alert with a count of each set of words. A choice of sending via Email or displaying on console is provided.

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