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Splunk Ninja - Inside the Cloud is an in depth tour of how you can use Cloud Computing services of Amazon (EC2), and the tools I use in my job to get things done. Be they splunk demos, testing our software, or having an environment to play in.
Tools covered: Amazon CLI, ElasticFox, Rightscale and CloudStatus
Bonus goodies: You get to see Splunk Replay and Splunk Globe in action!!
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michaelw... (0:57)
1 year ago 0 + -Amazon's EC2 Command-Line Utilities: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=351
michaelw... (1:56)
1 year ago 0 + -Elasticfox Firefox Browser Plugin: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609
michaelw... (2:13)
1 year ago 0 + -I use the Flock browser because its the best! Built on the Firefox 3 core, its just Firefox, how it should have been. http://flock.com
michaelw... (2:54)
1 year ago 0 + -Viewing public and private AMI's in Elasticfox
michaelw... (3:04)
1 year ago 0 + -I have three "Elastic IP's". They are static IP's I can assign to any running instance.
michaelw... (3:16)
1 year ago 0 + -Elasticfox makes it easy for me to see what ports I have open to the outside.
michaelw... (3:52)
1 year ago 0 + -Rightscale rocks: http://rightscale.com
michaelw... (5:07)
1 year ago 0 + -Private AMI's in my account.
michaelw... (5:49)
1 year ago 0 + -Rightscale's view of all images is great. They even have a pile of images you can use -- more than Amazon does!
michaelw... (6:06)
1 year ago 0 + -Starting an instance! Easy as pie.
michaelw... (7:24)
1 year ago 0 + -Starting up another instance of a Splunk server
michaelw... (8:02)
1 year ago 0 + -Assigning one of my elastic IP's to this running (or starting) instance.
michaelw... (8:36)
1 year ago 0 + -We'll fast forward a few hours and check out our results.
michaelw... (8:44)
1 year ago 0 + -Meanwhile, back at the ranch.
michaelw... (9:21)
1 year ago 0 + -Launched my Splunk server, get ready for some dev goodness
michaelw... (9:32)
1 year ago 0 + -Download Splunk Replay from SplunkBase our community of users: http://www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/Technologies/app:Splunk+Replay
michaelw... (9:49)
1 year ago 0 + -I'm issuing a search in the same way I would do in the default Splunk UI
michaelw... (10:42)
1 year ago 0 + -Map the src_ip field on the Y axis to see the attacker
michaelw... (10:50)
1 year ago 0 + -Map "user" on the X access to plot the user name the hacker was entering in their attack
michaelw... (10:54)
1 year ago 0 + -Press play and watch the attack be replayed for you. Very interesting way to visualize IT data, eh?
michaelw... (10:14)
1 year ago 0 + -Prepare for the "Visual DIctionary Attack!"
michaelw... (11:15)
1 year ago 0 + -Grab the Splunk Globe application from SplunkBase: http://www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/Business_Intelligence/app:Splunk+Globe
michaelw... (11:36)
1 year ago 0 + -All of the data that this application is plotting came from a search on the Splunk server, and it updates--In real time!
michaelw... (12:04)
1 year ago 0 + -Shut'er down!
michaelw... (12:37)
1 year ago 0 + -SSHing in to your instance from your browser is tres cool!
michaelw... (13:43)
1 year ago 0 + -Bonus combo feature! - CloudStatus - Hyperic's service to monitor AWS
michaelw... (13:58)
1 year ago 0 + -but why no RSS with CloudStatus?
michaelw... (14:26)
1 year ago 0 + -Download Splunk. It comes with a free license level: http://download.splunk.com