I need to know what is the protocol used in vmware ESXi vSphere client to connect to the remote console?
Is this protocol open source ?
Is their any vmware/third party applications enables VM Remote console connection other than vsphere client ?
If you're looking to connect to a ESX machine, without the heavy overhead of the vSphere client then you can use the VMware Remote Console.
While this isn't formally documented, one of the developers has kindly posted some fairly detailed information on the VMware Forums.
vmware-vmrc.exe command documentation
Depending what version of the plugin or vSphere client you have installed depends on the exact location of the plugin. Here is an example for what I have installed as part of vShpere 5
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\VMware\
VMware VMRC Plug-in\Internet Explorer\vmware-vmrc.exe"
-u user -p password -h esxi.localnet -d "[store1] Test/Test.vmx"
VMware's console access is indeed a closed protocol. However, they do have an embeddable web control called the Remote Console that implements this. It is an 'experimental' feature I believe, and won't be supported by them. But it's doable.
So while the protocol isn't implemented by anyone else I know of, there is an option to wrap the control at least.
See: Installing and Using the VMware Remote Console Plug-in
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We do have one server [Windows Server 2016] and i want to monitor that server, by installing Wazuh Tool.
I saw the documentation, but still i am getting confused. Should i need to install,
Wazuh Server
Wazuh Agent
Kibana
in server.? I don't see any article related to installing Wazuh Server in Windows Machine.
After following up the wazuh documentation, i can able to go up to a certain limit.
Installed Virtual Box in Windows Server.
Downloaded Wazuh OVA file and imported the same into virtual box.
Now i can able to connect to Wazuh Server, using the default credentials.
Now i stuck up at one place. I need to get the IP. I tried with 'Ip addr' command. But still, it is showing 127.0.0.1/8
As far as i checked, it is creating some dynamic IP's. Is there a way to setup Static IP. So that, i can able to access Wazuh Web console
through that IP.
Some of my findings:
It seems that the eth0 network interface for the VM does not have an IPv4 address assigned to it.
In the video in the documentation when running 'ip addr' it shows a dynamic IPv4 address as well as the IPv6 address so I suspect that this is the reason you cannot access the web console. This could be caused by the type of network interface you created for the VM in virtual box.
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As per your guidence, i did the following things.
Wazuh Server:
Virtual Box -> Adapter 1 -> Bridged Adapter
Virtual Box -> Adapter 2 -> Host-only Adapter
Started the Virtual Box and checked the 'Ip addr' command. Got the following IP's, eth0 [192.168..] and eth1 [10.0..]
In browser, i tried https://192.168.. and i can able to login to kibana.
Wazuh Agent:
The server which ever i am going to monitor, i installed Wazuh Agent. In the Wazuh Config file, i need to specify
Here i am bit confused. Should i need to give the actual server IP [where the wazuh server is] or i need to specify the IP's which i am getting in 'Ip Addr' command.?
I have tried all the IP's. When i check the Logs, it is showing like,
start_agent.c:100 at connect_server(): ERROR: (1216): Unable to connect to 'xx.xx.xx.xxx': 'Bad file descriptor'.
I recommend you reading the Architecture guide for a better understanding of how Wazuh works. Its architecture is based on agents, which means you need to install Wazuh agent on those endpoints you want to monitor (for example, your Windows server), and then connect these agents to a Wazuh Manager server (which need to be installed in a Linux machine, so you will need another server).
Kibana/Splunk are optional and useful tools to index the data generated by the manager for better visualization. I recommend using Kibana and the Elasticsearch Stack.
For the Linux Wazuh Manager server I recommend trying the all in one deployment, or, if you will have few agents connected and doesn't want to deploy any instance from scratch, you could try the pre-built Virtual Machine appliance (OVA)
I hope this helps you. The best point to start using Wazuh is the Getting started guide. I recommend you read that first of all.
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Hello,
I'm sorry if I weren't clear enough. Wazuh has two main components: Manager (server in the documentation) and Agent.
The manager is also called a server because it serves the Wazuh service itself. That means the part of Wazuh that analyzes security events and generates alerts.
But Wazuh agent (despite its name) is also installed on servers that you want to monitorize and it is used to send security events to the Wazuh Manager (server) so they could be analyzed.
That said, if you want to correctly monitorize a Windows server you need to install the Wazuh Windows agent on it because it is designed to monitorize Windows servers. And you need to connect this agent to a Wazuh server. Here, you have different options:
You could install the Wazuh Manager in another (Linux) server.
You could install docker and docker-compose on your Windows server and use the wazuh-docker GitHub repository to deploy a Wazuh manager stack (with Wazuh, Elasticsearch and Kibana) to connect you, agent, to.
You could install the Wazuh OVA (VM appliance) on Virtualbox or similar software (this Virtual machine has installed by default Wazuh Manager, Elasticsearch and Kibana as well).
I see that you're trying with the 4th, deploying the Wazuh OVA on Virtualbox. Nevertheless, remember that you must have to install the Windows agent as well and connect it to the Wazuh Manager.
Regarding the IP question. My advice here is to enter the VirtualBox configuration for the machine and set up two network interfaces (or adapters). One host-only adapter (which will have a static IP that you could use to connect from your local browser) and other with a bridged adapter (to connect to the internet). Then, I recommend using nmtui (a console user interface for network manager) to set up your static IP as in the attached capture. That should be enough.
I want salt-cloud with vmware provider to spawn windows minions. But i struggle with the instructions in the documentation.
If supported by the cloud provider, a PowerShell script may be used to open up this port automatically, using the cloud provider's userdata. The following script would open up port 445, and apply the changes
Does my provider supports the userdata_file? I did not find anything in the docs. Anyone knows?
Looking at the VMware SaltCloud driver, it looks like the vim.vm.customization.UserData() section is yet to support execution of PowerShell scripts.
https://github.com/saltstack/salt/blob/develop/salt/cloud/clouds/vmware.py#L2631
I have recently setup a VM on Google Cloud to develop and host my web site/application. The setup went fine, and I even have gcloud SDK up and running. I also have Apache installed and configured. My question is how do I setup my editing environment (PHP Storm) and upload my files? They seem to have the ports for FTP and SFTP blocked.
FTP uses a clear-text protocol and is thus not recommended. To use SFTP:
Make sure you can ssh to your instance: gcutil --project=<project> ssh <instance>. This does two things: (a) makes sure that port 22 is open on your VM, and (b) propagates your private key to the instance, if it's not already there.
Configure PHP Storm to use the Key pair authentication mechanism using the key ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine to log in to the instance.
That's it.
I want to create a VPN Connection Manager on user's PC. The connection Manager must set up 3 VPN protocols on user's PC for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
PPTP and
L2TP/IPSec and
OpenVPN
The Connection Manager shall receive server list from our servers.
Please help me to soulve the above issue. I google it since last 2 days bit not find any approproate solution to this. So please help me in this.
You can find details on creating a VPN Connection in .NET using:
Set up VPN Connection using C#
Remote Access Server Spec
However using ASP.NET is unlikely as browsers can't instantiate a VPN connection, they are sandboxed away from that functionality. Even services like GoToMyPC have a desktop client to perform the main functionality.
However you could create the RAS file then provide a download link on a website to it.
You can find the file at:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk
The person downloading the file can then just import that and have all the set up provided.
I'm using the BlazeDS binary version with Apache tomcat 6.0. And it seems there's a developer mode active and it only allows 3 IPs to connect to the application (Server).
This is what the log says:
[BlazeDS]MessageBroker '__default__' rejected connection from address 'xxx.xxx.xx.x'; Developer mode addresses already in use: xxx.x.xxx.xx, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, xx.xxx.xxx.xx
(IP addresses are masked with 'x' for privacy)
I have not added any special configuration to make developer mode active. I couldn't find any resources related to this scenario either. Please help.
Thanks in Advance.
If you install Livecycle DataServices without having a serial number you'll have this limitation. However that's not the case for BlazeDS. So please check again, I think you have installed LCDS instead of BlazeDS.