IT Pro Tuesday #330
Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!
We’re looking for favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.
Now on to this week’s list!
Training Resource
BGP Labs allows you to improve your skills using open-source BGP through a series of hand-on configuration experiences on your preferred platform. Gryzemuis explains, “You can set up any topology with any router OS you want, on your own PC… Setting all this up might be a bit of work, but it will certainly pay off.”
A Free Tool
Wazuh is an open source, enterprise-ready solution that can monitor infrastructure to detect threats, intrusion attempts, system anomalies, poorly configured applications, and unauthorized user actions. It also provides a framework for incident response and regulatory compliance. Thanks to Nnyan for pointing us to this one.
A YouTube Channel
Alex Ziskind’s Channel is focused on “unraveling software enigmas” through a growing collection of expert, in-depth tech review videos. Slashyb particularly appreciated it “for reviews on ARM based hardware before we start deploying ARM based hardware to users internally.”
A Cheatsheet
Python Cheatsheet is a nice, one-page reference sheet where you can quickly find all the essentials you’ll need to work efficiently with the Python 3 programming language. Kindly suggested by OTK22.
Another Free Tool
Xfce is a fast, visually appealing desktop environment for UNIX-like OSes. Offers a user-friendly option that won’t consume a lot of system resources. MentalUproar likes that it “happily runs on anything more powerful than a toaster [and] is meant to be tweaked a million different ways.”
P.S. Bonus Free Tools
Tftpd64 is a lightweight, open-source, IPv6-ready application that includes DHCP, TFTP, DNS, SNTP, and Syslog servers as well as a TFTP client. Both client and server are fully compatible with TFTP option support to allow maximum performance when transferring data. Features include directory facility, security tuning, and interface filtering, plus the included DHCP server offers unlimited IP address assignment. A favorite tool of u35828.
NXLog is an open-source tool for pushing windows events to your log aggregator in a variety of formats. Supports the most-common data sources (e.g., Windows Event Log, flat files, and syslog) and comes with ready-to-deploy installation packages for Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux. Offers log message rewrite, event correlation, enrichment, filtering, pattern matching, conversion, and more. BrokenPickle7 says, “Nxlog CE is my go to. Free and works great.”
