TLDR; The short version is follow the Fortinet Guide and Microsoft Guide to the letter. The rest of this post steps through the guide and highlights some of the things that may go wrong, what the error messages are and
Juniper USB Console
Now I have been using a USB to RJ45 serial for years. A suitable generic FTDI cable that just works. Seen as COM3 in windows and then using putty is a breeze. But what about that neat little Mini USB
Using Fortigate for Cloudian S3 Load Balancer
Most of the Cloudian guides suggest using HA-Proxy or similar as a Load Balancer in front of the Cloudian nodes.However, If you have an Existing Fortigate we can use that. I want to: Use the Fortigate to distribute S3 traffic
S3 Object Lock
There’s got to be a better way…. If you put Object Lock on a bucket and use retention hold periods on your data to protect from early/ransomeware deletion, then when it comes time to remove thate data – how do
DellEMC ESRS-VE Update to 3.44.00.08.0 error – SOLVED
Issue in upgrading ESRS-VE from 3.40.00.14 to 3.44.00.08.0. UI shows update is available, but on pressing download we get a suitably generic message: An error has occurred. Internal error occured. Check logs for details Log on to esrs as root
Fortinet training for free!
Fortinet have opened up their technical training program for free online here: https://www.fortinet.com/training/cybersecurity-professionals.html?utm_source=pr&utm_campaign=2020-q2-keyword This includes NSE4 and above now. Previously only for the partner community self paced training material has been available via the partner portal but Fortinet have now
Windows 10 update Error code 0x80240fff
Had the misfortune of needing to rebuild a Windows 10 Pro machine. The only install DVD that I has was from July 2016 – so almost 4 years old. Install went fine, but was left with the install at build
Fortigate SSL VPN User limits
Over the last few days have dealt with a large number of people who are having issues withe remote users seeming being limited to around 10 users. This is because by default, the SSLVPN_TUNNEL_ADDR1 object is created out the box
Fortinet ALG and SIP
Not necessarily limited to Fortinet…. An ALG is an application layer gateway and these helpers are used in some cases where the protocol embeds data about the IP endpoints in the protocol itself. e.g. SIP contains the endpoint IP address
VMware find datastore from naa id
Many log messages come up referring to the device WWN naa id e.g 2019-09-02T10:30:44.337Z: [scsiCorrelator] 304273812631us: [vob.scsi.device.io.latency.high] Device naa.60002ac000000000000000140001eac6 performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average value of 826 microseconds to 16837 microseconds. 2019-09-02T10:30:44.337Z: [scsiCorrelator] 304280755082us: [esx.problem.scsi.device.io.latency.high] Device naa.60002ac000000000000000140001eac6