uniCenta oPOS – Installation walk-through, Start to Finish

Posted on by Hend Grow

uniCenta oPOS is a Powerful commercial-grade open source Point of Sale system.

In this walk-through we will show you the steps to install a fully functional enterprise grade Point of Sale system. We personally have installed this system and its in use daily.

The guide or steps used in this tutorial can be found in the YouTube description section of the video guide.

Url’s used

Unicenta – https://sourceforge.net/projects/unicentaopos/

Java – https://www.java.com/en/download/win10.jsp

Visual C++ – https://download.microsoft.com/download/0/5/6/056dcda9-d667-4e27-8001-8a0c6971d6b1/vcredist_x64.exe

MySQL – https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/installer/5.7.html

Steps:

Once you have downloaded the software with the provided links. Install the software. During the walkthrough it was done in the following order.

Note: It is required to install “Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable x64” before starting the “ MySQL 5.7” install. The version of MySQL is important.

  1. Java
  2. Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable x64
  3. MySQL 5.7 (Server)
  4. Extracted unicentaopos-4.3.2_no_installer.zip

Configuration

  1. One you have install the MySQL server and created a user, Open the MySQL command line utility and create the database “ unicentaopos”

# CREATE DATABASE unicentaopos;

  1. Extract the unicentaopos-4.3.2_no_installer.zip and run the “start.bat” file.
  2. Select the tab database and enter the detail of the database, username and password you created during the MySQL install.
  3. run “start.bat” this time it should prompt you to create the database as none is detected. Select yes.


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QRadar 7.3.1 (CE) Community Edition – Install – Start to Finish – (Unofficial)

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QRadar Community Edition 7.3.1 is a fully-featured version of QRadar that you can use at home or in your lab. A new feature of QRadar Community Edition 7.3.1 enables IBM Security X-Force® Threat Intelligence IP reputation for use.

Note: “# sudo /opt/qradar/support/changePasswd.sh -a” command is used to set the QRadar WUI admin password at the end of the installation.

QRadar Community Edition v7.3.0 is the previous release.

Q1 LABS, QRADAR and the ‘Q’ Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of IBM Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

This is an unofficial video.

Disclaimer – https://www.hendgrow.com/disclaimer/

QRadar 7.3.0 (CE) Community Edition – Install – Start to Finish – (Unofficial)

Posted on by Hend Grow

QRadar Community Edition v7.3.0 is a fully-featured version of QRadar that you can use at home or in your lab. As the QRadar Community Edition install is slightly different from the Standard / traditional QRadar installation. Thought there was value in creating this walk-through.

QRadar Community Edition v7.3.1 has been released. QRadar Community Edition v7.3.1

Note: “# sudo /opt/qradar/support/changePasswd.sh -a” command is used to set the QRadar WUI admin password at the end of the installation.

Links for the ISO’s used:

CentOS

QRadar CE

Q1 LABS, QRADAR and the ‘Q’ Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of IBM Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

IPFire – The Initial Build (Firewall | Router| Proxy | Gateway)…

Posted on by Hend Grow

IPFire is a hardened open source Linux distribution that primarily performs as a router and a firewall. It’s a standalone firewall system with a web-based management console for configuration.

In short a Good Open-source firewall /proxy that can be used at home. Easy 2 install & Easy 2 use?

There are many open-source distros available today that could serve as a proxy or firewall. We are not saying IPFire is the only firewall/proxy distro. However, if you looking for an easy install system with many add-ons for home or small office use look no further. In this walk though will show you how to install the IPFire Open Source Firewall. Use it as your personal firewall gateway and proxy server.

For more information on IPFire visit https://www.ipfire.org

Installing Kali Linux on Windows 10

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In this walk through we will show you how to install Kali Linux on Windows 10 / Or any Linux distributions offered via the store

More about Kali Linux App: https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-in-the-windows-app-store/

How to install any Linux distributions offered via the Windows store.

Windows build 16215 or later required. For more detailed information follow the Microsoft link here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

OSSEC Open Source HIDS

Posted on by Hend Grow

— Refer to our UPDATED guide for OSSEC! —

OSSEC Open Source HIDS – Server, Web Interface & Windows Client Install.

This walk through will show you how to install OSSEC HIDS Server with Web User Interface. Configure the WUI and instal the client on a Windows machine.

—Start Here—

Assuming you have an existing Ubuntu server setup. 

  1. Update the system.

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

2. Install some base applications

sudo apt install -y php php-cli php-common libapache2-mod-php apache2-utils sendmail inotify-tools apache2 build-essential gcc make wget tar libssl1.0-dev libz-dev libssl-dev libpcre2-dev libevent-dev

3. Enable rewrite, Apache & Start Apache.

sudo systemctl enable apache2

sudo systemctl start apache2

sudo a2enmod rewrite 

4. Let’s get the OSSEC source package, extract and install. (Check for the latest version -> https://www.ossec.net/download-ossec/ at the time of creating this document version = 3.1.0

wget https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/archive/3.1.0.tar.gz

tar -xvzf 3.1.0.tar.gz

cd ossec-hids-3.1.0/

sudo sh ./install.sh 

5. The OSSEC Service options & starting

Usage: ./ossec-control {start|stop|reload|restart|status|enable|disable}

sudo / var/ossec/bin/ossec-control start

6. Install the OSSEC web User Interface.

cd /tmp/

sudo git clone https://github.com/ossec/ossec-wui.git

sudo mv /tmp/ossecwui /var/www/html

cd /var/www/html/ossec-wui

sudo ./setup.sh 

6.1 Set some file permissions 

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/ossec-wui/

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/ossec-wui/

Restart Apache2

sudo systemctl restart apache2

7. Open browser and navigate to http://your-servers-ip/ossec-wui

To see how to install the agent /client on a windows desktop for the Youtube recording of this install to 14:38

—End—