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The Elastic Stack used to be called the ELK Stack; this link provides more information.
Applied Network Security Monitoring: Collection, Detection, and Analysis by Chris Sanders and Jason Smith
The Art of Monitoring by James Turnbull
ElasticSearch 5.0 Cookbook – Third Edition by Alberto Paro
Elasticsearch Blueprints by Vineeth Mohan
Elasticsearch: A Complete Guide by Bharvi Dixit,
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We worked very hard to write an original twelve-question Big Data Quiz. Please do not expect another posting (like we normally post) for several days. Please be sure to check out the Big Data Quiz!
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Problem scenario
An IP address is pingable from one Linux server. On this server there are no Docker containers running. A traceroute reveals that this IP address is one hop away from your server. How do you find out what this IP address belongs to?
Solution
Use this command: ip addr show
You may also want to use this command:
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Problem scenario
You have Ansible installed as a control server (a centralized server to push down configurations to other servers). You want to use it to manage another server. How do you configure the other server to be a managed node? In other words, how do you configure Ansible to push configuration changes down to servers?
Solution
Prerequisite
Ansible must be installed.
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Problem scenario
You want to install Jenkins on an Ubuntu Linux server without running an “apt-get upgrade” command. (You are ok with installing a “apt-transport-https” package.) What should you do?
Solution
See this posting because the directions work for Ubuntu in AWS and Debian in GCP.
(If you can run “apt-get upgrade”, and you do not want to install “apt-transport-https”,
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Problem scenario
You run spark-shell in a Debian distribution of Linux (e.g., Ubuntu) but you receive this error:
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 64
at java.util.jar.JarFile.match(java.base@9-internal/JarFile.java:983)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.checkForSpecialAttributes(java.base@9-internal/JarFile.java:1017)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.isMultiRelease(java.base@9-internal/JarFile.java:399)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.getEntry(java.base@9-internal/JarFile.java:524)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.getJarEntry(java.base@9-internal/JarFile.java:480)
at jdk.internal.util.jar.JarIndex.getJarIndex(java.base@9-internal/JarIndex.java:114)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath$JarLoader$1.run(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:640)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath$JarLoader$1.run(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:632)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(java.base@9-internal/Native Method)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath$JarLoader.ensureOpen(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:631)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath$JarLoader.<init(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:606)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath$3.run(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:386)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath$3.run(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:376)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(java.base@9-internal/Native Method)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath.getLoader(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:375)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath.getLoader(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:352)
at jdk.internal.loader.URLClassPath.getResource(java.base@9-internal/URLClassPath.java:218)
at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader$3.run(java.base@9-internal/BuiltinClassLoader.java:463)
at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader$3.run(java.base@9-internal/BuiltinClassLoader.java:460)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(java.base@9-internal/Native Method)
at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.findClassOnClassPathOrNull(java.base@9-internal/BuiltinClassLoader.java:459)
at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClassOrNull(java.base@9-internal/BuiltinClassLoader.java:406)
at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@9-internal/BuiltinClassLoader.java:364)
at jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@9-internal/ClassLoaders.java:184)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@9-internal/ClassLoader.java:419)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.loadMainClass(java.base@9-internal/LauncherHelper.java:585)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(java.base@9-internal/LauncherHelper.java:497)
How do you solve this?
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Problem scenario
You want a generic script that can install open source Apache Spark on Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS/RedHat/Fedora or SUSE distributions of Linux. How do you do this?
Solution
1. Create a script such as this in /tmp/ (e.g., /tmp/spark.sh).
#!/bin/bash
# Written by www.continualintegration.com
sparkversion=2.2.1 # Change this version as necessary
distro=$(cat /etc/*-release | grep NAME)
debflag=$(echo $distro | grep -i “ubuntu”)
if [ -z “$debflag” ]
then
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Problem scenario
You have Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat (including CentOS and Fedora), and SUSE distributions of Linux. You want to install OSSEC on each server (to protect them with host-based intrusion detection systems, IDSes). You want to use the same script to install OSSEC on each server. How do you do this?
Solution
1. Create a script such as this /tmp/ossec.sh.
#!/bin/bash
# Written by www.continualintegration.com
ossecversion=3.1.0
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Problem scenario
You want a generic script that can install open source Apache Solr on Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS/RedHat/Fedora or SUSE distributions of Linux. How do you do this with the same bash script?
Solution
1. Create a script such as this in /tmp/ (e.g., /tmp/solr.sh).
#!/bin/bash
# Written by www.continualintegration.com
solrversion=7.2.1 # Change this version as necessary
distro=$(cat /etc/*-release | grep NAME)
debflag=$(echo $distro | grep -i “ubuntu”)
if [ -z “$debflag” ]
then
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Problem scenario
You have GitLab and Jenkins set up already. You want to use a GitLab API token in Jenkins. How do you create a GitLab API token?
Solution
1. Log into the GitLab web UI. (If you need directions on setting up GitLab, see this posting.)
2. In the upper righthand corner, go to the circle icon next to an icon of a down arrow.
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