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IPSet (Linux Netfilter/IPTables)

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

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

Updated 1 day ago by Adam

Agent Installation

Admin Guide Setup Guides

For the admin who know what they need, and needs a fast way to get it, you can use this command t...

Updated 1 day ago by Adam

Debugging & log levels

Admin Guide Troubleshooting

Things go wrong from time to time, the best way to understand more detail is to increase the log ...

Updated 2 days ago by Adam

Allowlist (EDLs)

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

The Allowlist backend makes a list of active IP address grants available via the Knocknoc server ...

Updated 5 days ago by Adam

Palo Alto

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

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

Updated 5 days ago by Adam

Grant and Revoke process

Admin Guide Access

The granting and revoking of access by Knocknoc occurs on a number of events, including: User ...

Updated 5 days ago by Adam

LOOTOTL - Last One Out Turn Off The Lights

Admin Guide Access

Knocknoc keeps a track of the IPs and tries to be kind to users that share IPs. This means that i...

Updated 5 days ago by Adam

Additional client IP addresses

Admin Guide Access

Capturing additional client IP addresses A client may exhibit behaviour where multiple IP addres...

Updated 5 days ago by Adam

Click to Grant/Revoke

Admin Guide Access

For additional security and temporal access control, Knoc's support a "click to grant" and "click...

Updated 5 days ago by Adam

Getting Started

Admin Guide

Cloud SaaS or self-hosted server? You can run your Knocknoc server either as a managed cloud ins...

Updated 1 week ago by Dave

Server Installation

Admin Guide Setup Guides

For the admin who knows what they need and needs a fast way to get it, you can use this command t...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

HAProxy

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

HAProxy is a fantastic reverse proxy with a massive amount of features. Knocknoc has supported HA...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

Cisco (SFMC/Firepower)

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

The  Cisco Secure Firewall Management Console (formerly known as Firepower) integration allows Kn...

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Updates and Upgrades

Admin Guide Setup Guides

The Knocknoc software is managed by your operating system, as such updates can be managed within ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

AWS WAF Ipset

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

Below is a concise guide for a sysadmin (or developer) to set up and configure AWS WAF with a cus...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

Microsoft Entra

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

Overview This integration is designed to manage named locations in Microsoft Azure Conditional A...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

Apache Webserver

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

Apache 2.4 and above have slightly different ACL syntax, so this page covers how you can use Knoc...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

Nginx

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

Nginx support via script was added in knocknoc-agent version 1.0.30. This allows for flexible ACL...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dylan

IPsets with Shorewall

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

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

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

Mikrotik RouterOS

Admin Guide Backends (Knocs)

The scripting backend can be used for MikroTik RouterOS config updates as well. Here is a sample ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave