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