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New update for Forticlient SSLVPN .deb packages (4.4.2313)

Just a few days ago Fortinet released new version of their SSLVPN utilities.

As of version 4.4.2313 Fortinet modified quite a few files resp. deleted some .sh files as for example the sysconfig.linux.sh file were we made the Ubuntu 15.04 changes. Also when you start the program it still shows version 4.4.2312 which means they forgot to increment the version number. Until now I only tested for Ubuntu 14.04 32/64bit, your are welcome to test for other OS variants.

Have fun with the packages, you can find it as usual on the project page.

OMD 1.30 Monitoring with check_mk 1.2.6

Update 02.03.2017: This package is no longer supported and maintained. Please download package with integrated OMD here: https://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_download.php

Update 10.04.2015: I have now added a RHEL/CentOS 7 package as requested, have fun

check_mk author Mathias Kettner released version 1.2.6 just a few days ago. It has a lot new features and bugfixes, so its worth to upgrade. A feature i was waiting for is the new “inventory” system which collects hard- and software details from each pc where the check_mk agent is installed and a little plugin called “mk_inventory” is deployed.

As i use the free OMD packaging system i was also waiting for a new release with check_mk version 1.2.6. Unfortunately even the latest version on git does not have the new 1.2.6 version packaged. So i decided to package my own version of OMD with check_mk 1.2.6 . For this i checked out the latest git version and modified it for the new check_mk version.

All who want to try this can download the updated OMD package here:
OMD package for Ubuntu 14.04 64bit (Debian 64bit should work too)
OMD package for RHEL/Centos 6 64bit
OMD package for RHEL/Centos 7 64bit

It will side install a new OMD version 1.30.

Important: For some reason after updating a site to the new version OMD 1.30 the stylesheets/javascript files are not loaded properly because of wrong file paths. To fix this you must update the file “/omd/versions/1.30/share/check_mk/web/htdocs/htmllib.py”.

Line 763 change “fname = ‘%s-%s.css’ % (css, defaults.check_mk_version)” to “fname = ‘%s.css’ % css
Line 778 change “fname = ‘js/%s-%s.js’ % (js, defaults.check_mk_version)” to “fname = ‘js/%s.js’ % js

After this fix the check_mk website should load normally. I know this is a quick and dirty fix, but its good for try out the new features. I also hope the will release the officiall version soon.

Important 2: There is is one more fix needed so inventory is aktually displayed in the check_mk GUI in file “/opt/omd/versions/1.30/share/check_mk/modules/inventory.py”.

Line 49 change path to your actually used omd instance for example “filelist = glob.glob(“/omd/sites/your_omd_site/share/check_mk/inventory/*”)“. I know this es even a more dirty hack, maybe i will improve it, but for testing or if you use only one active site inventory will work now as expected.

Forticlient SSLVPN .deb packages for Ubuntu

As i use Ubuntu as my main system and must use Forticlient SSLVPN to connect to our customers, i wanted to build my own debian packages.

As Fortinet doesn’t provide any .deb packages but only generic .tar.gz packages, i decided to build my own Ubuntu packages for easy install and maintain. You also get a nice “Launch Icon” in your Start menu do start the program.

This should also work on Debian systems, but i did not test this. There are 32 and 64bit packages available.

For download and more information visit my project page

My website moved again…

I was looking for a more easy to use system for posting news and grouping information and i think i found it. : )

Along with this movement i also enabled https as default for all my sites.

Have a lot of fun on the new website.

Cheers
Rene