Engineering
Integrating Amazon’s WAF with opEvents monitoring automation
At Opmantek, we use our own software heavily for monitoring our production and development systems, solving our own IT Operations challenges that we know our customers share, it also helps us to develop the products faster in real-world environments through early...
Getting Started with the Opmantek VM
This page details the four simple steps you need to get started using the Opmantek Virtual Machine. The virtual machine is a vendor neutral image (OVF) that can be converted and used with VMware (ESXi, Fusion, et al), Virtual Box, KVM and Hyper-V. It's a quick and...
Getting Started, Configuring the Applications
Introduction Getting up and running is as simple as finding the virtual machines IP and calling the application page's URL. After that you will want to enter your license (or get a free license) and we would suggest using the Wizard to kick start your journey. If you...
Getting Started, Configuring the Appliance
Out of the box, the Opmantek VM requires no configuration changes to work, however you may wish to make changes so it complements your particular network environment. Items such as using HTTPS, setting the hostname or configuring the IP stack are all configurable....
Getting Started, Converting the OVF for Other Hypervisors
To use OVF/OVA files with other virtualisation systems like KVM you may have to convert the OVF file to a native format; Two well-known tools for this purpose are virt-v2v (available in CentOS6/RHEL) and virt-convert (in Debian).
Getting Started, Converting the OVF for Hyper-V
The Windows Hyper-V technology does not fully support the OVF industry standard. Microsoft documents a complex and somewhat limited procedure on their page about converting OVF files to Hyper-V. There are third-party conversion tools available that simplify this...
Getting Started, Converting the OVF for VMware vCenter
Importing the OVA file to an ESXi Datacenter via vCenter using VMware OVF Tool NOTE - We do not support OVA import to VMware ESXi directly or via VMware vCenter using a browser. NOTE - We require the VMware OVF Tool if importing to VMware ESXi directly or via VMware...
Getting Started, Converting the OVF for VMware ESXi
Importing the OVA file directly to ESXi using VMware OVF Tool NOTE - We do not support OVA import to VMware ESXi directly or via VMware vCenter using a browser. NOTE - We require the VMware OVF Tool if importing to VMware ESXi directly or via VMware vCenter:...
Getting Started, Converting the OVF for VMware Desktop Applications
These VMware Desktop products will import directly from an OVF/OVA file so you can just start up the software and select "File → Open" and select the OVA file for import. VMware Fusion 11 Even though, there are no caveats in relation to importing the...
Getting Started, Converting the OVF for VirtualBox
VirtualBox will import directly from an OVF/OVA file so you can just start up VirtualBox and select "Import Appliance..." Browse to where you unzipped the file and select the ovf file, you should see a screen something like this:The import process may take a couple of...
Using Postman to query the Open-AudIT API
I often utilise Postman to query the Open-AudIT API when developing. Just using a browser, it's difficult to send anything other than a GET request - but Postman makes it simple to send a POST, PATCH or DELETE as required. You can get it...
Open-AudIT | Device SubSection Data Retention Options
With the release of Open-AudIT 3.1.0, we have massively expanded the options around keeping and processing data from devices. SubSections of a device within Open-AudIT refers to the many tables that hold specific data types - software, netstat ports, processors,...