Monitoring Mikrotik and Linux servers with Grafana, Prometheus and Node Exporter

Overview Grafana is a powerful open-source platform for monitoring and observability, enabling users to visualize and analyze data from various sources in real-time. On this guide, I’ll show you how to deploy Grafana on docker stack to monitor the Mikrotik devices (using SNMP), and monitoring the Linux and Windows Server. Sample Mikrotik Linux Server - Node Exporter Environment Networking and VLan VlanID Subnet 101 10.10.101.0/24 102 10.10.102.0/24 Server Environment ServerName IPAddress Notes doc01 10....

August 23, 2023 · 4 min · by Chisqi

Implementing 802.1x Authentication for wired and Wireless connections

Introduction 802.1X is a network access control (NAC) standard that provides an authentication framework for controlling access to network resources. It is a part of the IEEE 802.1 group of protocols, which defines how devices in a Local Area Network (LAN) communicate with each other. The main purpose of 802.1X is to ensure that only authorized devices or users are allowed to connect to a network, thereby enhancing network security. It operates at the link layer of the OSI model and is primarily used for wired and wireless Ethernet networks....

April 3, 2023 · 7 min · by Chisqi

Enable DOH on Mikrotik

Introduction DOH stands for “DNS over HTTPS,” which is a protocol that encrypts and secures Domain Name System (DNS) requests and responses using the HTTPS protocol. It helps improve privacy and security when resolving domain names to IP addresses on the internet. DOH combines these two concepts by encapsulating DNS queries and responses within HTTPS requests and responses. When a device uses DOH, it sends DNS queries to a DNS resolver using the HTTPS protocol....

August 23, 2021 · 3 min · by Chisqi