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Agent installation

Admin Guide Setup guides

Agent requirements The agent will attempt to connect to your Knocknoc server using https on port...

Updated 5 hours ago by Adam

v8.5

Changelog and Roadmap

Knocknoc 8.5   Knocknoc 8.5 delivers key improvements in usability, integrations, and security, ...

Updated 20 hours ago by Adam

High availability

Admin Guide Setup guides

The Knocknoc Server can be deployed in various ways to match your high-availability needs and dep...

Updated 1 day ago by Adam

SAML with EntraID (Azure AD)

Admin Guide Authentication

The following example assumes your Knocknoc instance is located at https://demo.knoc.cloud. Where...

Updated 2 days ago by Adam

Knocknoc Reverse Proxy

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

The Knocknoc orchestration Agent - which is deployed alongside managed infrastructure (not on des...

Updated 5 days ago by Adam

HAProxy + KAT

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

Sometimes IP address restrictions or IP-based allowlisting is not enough, think: airport lounge, ...

Updated 6 days ago by Adam

Server installation (on premise)

Admin Guide Setup guides

On a Linux host as Root, execute the below command to setup and install your Knocknoc server. You...

Updated 1 week ago by Adam

Palo Alto

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

Passive, Active or a combination Passive - Knocknoc's Allowlist features provides a passive inte...

Updated 1 week ago by Adam

AWS (EC2) Security Groups

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

Knocknoc can orchestrate Amazon AWS Security Groups, which essentially provide network level fire...

Updated 1 week ago by Adam

Fortigate Address Groups (Fortinet)

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

The  FortiOS integration allows Knocknoc to dynamically add and remove user's source IP from a na...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

SAML for the Admin Interface

Admin Guide Authentication

SAML for the admin interface is the same as SAML for the user base with a few very small alterati...

Updated 3 weeks ago by Adam

Package Repository Key expired

Admin Guide Troubleshooting

Debian distros (Ubuntu etc) If you are getting the this error: Failed to fetch https://packages...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Dave

Agent as a Reverse Proxy

Admin Guide Setup guides

The orchestration agent can be configured to reverse-proxy traffic, simply by enabling this mode ...

Updated 4 weeks ago by Adam

BYO PostgreSQL

Admin Guide Setup guides

Knocknoc server v8.5+ installs with a local installation of PostgreSQL by default. However, you m...

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Logging

Admin Guide

Logging is important - we love logging. Because of this, we have included an easy to find, follo...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

IPsets with UFW

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

This is an example that lets you use UFW (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall) and IPse...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

IPSet (Linux Netfilter/IPTables)

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

IPSets are a powerful and highly efficient way of making a dynamic firewall on a normal Linux mac...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

v7.7

Changelog and Roadmap

Knocknoc 8.5   Knocknoc 8.5 delivers key improvements in usability, integrations, and security, ...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

Custom Script

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

The "Custom Script" Knoc type is simply a script the agent can execute directly on the Agent mach...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

IPsets with Shorewall

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

This is an example that lets you use Shorewall https://shorewall.org/index.html and IPsets to dyn...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam