We upgraded our Security Onion nodes today. We really had no choice. I was surprised to see the so-elastalert container normally running on the manager being unable to start. I happened to glance at the release notes, and tried the commands suggested there. Suffice it to say, I got nowhere.

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The Dell PERC H730 Adapter, a 12 Gbit/s SAS controller, in a Dell PowerEdge R330 server, complained about “L2/L3 Cache error was detected on the RAID controller.” This server was using BIOS 2.16.0 in UEFI mode and the SAS controller ran firmware version 25.5.0.0018. Entering X to accept the current predicament went nowhere and nothing else […]

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Sometimes old equipment fails in mysterious ways. This time a whole fleet of Cisco Aironet 3700 Series Access Points disappeared from their controller. The access points have “Manufacturing Installed Certificates” and these certificates will expire sooner or later. In this case, the certificates expired sometime during the weekend.

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