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SAML with EntraID (Azure AD)

Admin Guide Authentication

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

Updated 5 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 6 days ago by Adam

Agent installation

Admin Guide Setup guides

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

Updated 1 week ago by Adam

v8.5

Changelog and Roadmap

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

Updated 1 week 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 week ago by Adam

Knocknoc Reverse Proxy

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

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

Updated 1 week ago by Adam

HAProxy + KAT

Admin Guide Knocs (backends)

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

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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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...

Updated 1 month ago by Adam

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 2 months 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 2 months ago by Adam