“Tomorrow I get to..”
“Tomorrow I get to..” I can feel the excitement and wonder emanating from these two as they reminisce over their shared experiences at Industrial Light and Magic. That alone is enough to keep me...
John Franklin
Data Reorganization using Powershell and Robocopy
Background As I have mentioned, I onboard new customers. That means I usually inherit problems. This solution was fun to come up with. This customer purchased a new server and a eventually couple of...
How to use Python to save time auditing a logfile.
A recent system migration had me auditing user activity in a file sharing platform. The web interface does not make the process easy, simply listing each entry in an endless scroll. Fortunately, I was...
KnowBe4 implementation with Active Directory Sync
Know Be4 can ingest and provision users by way of a sync agent stored on a server in the domain. This agent connects to a KnowBe4 api endpoint and synchronizes users daily. Preparation Steps:...
Recent Projects
This is a running list of projects I led or played a key part in completing. Sometimes it is a bit challenging to keep track of all of the different things I have done....
Honor Roll
UPDATE – I’ve been doing well, made Honor Roll several times. Rather than repost every time, I figured I’d link to my stats page over on Meritpages. John Franklin on Meritpages Hey Look! I...
Running Docker on Proxmox
I wanted to run this cool looking internet monitor I found on GitHub. https://github.com/geerlingguy/internet-pi/tree/master/internet-monitoring It runs in Docker and was originally intended for Raspberry Pi. But, I ignored most of that and decided to...
Jupyter Notebooks
Plan: install and run Jupyter notebooks so I can learn how to setup a python workflow for managing reports or processing common datasets for different customers. An example: Reporting on who has what Office...
Network Monitoring Server
While working as a Security Administrator, I was responsible for network management and monitoring. Our main office had a handful of Dell 6248P switches connected to a Cisco Catalyst 7501 core switch. Mostly flat...
Central Monitoring Server
One of my directives as the solo Security Administrator was to “monitor everything” and “know everything” that happened on the network. (thanks Tony). The company and network needs to be described a bit for...
Load Balanced Web Servers
While working as a Linux administrator, I had the task to build a clustered environment to host our WordPress servers. As a financial publisher had a subscriber base of ~250k active subscribers. We hosted...