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Showing posts with label cisco. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Still Undecided About Cisco Live? Take a Sneak Peek!

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If you still aren't convinced to go to Cisco Live! this year in San Diego, perhaps a sneak peek at two of the courses will help. BRK...
Friday, February 13, 2015

It's Dirty Work, But Somebody's Gotta Do It

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Network Engineers are known to have to work in dirty places like under desks, janitors closets (err I mean network closets), and those weird...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Cisco Livin' On the Edge!

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Cisco Live! is always a great week of training, networking and socializing, but this year is going to put us on the edge. The Customer App...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Cisco ONE, Panacea or Another Headache?

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Cisco formally announced Cisco ONE today/yesterday at Cisco Live! Milan.  At face value Cisco ONE will allow customers to buy Cisco's so...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Cisco Live! 2013 Notable Keys to Know!

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Cisco Live! is Cisco's annual customer conference.  I try to go as often as possible simply because it's the best training bang for ...
Friday, January 25, 2013

$3,000 for Obsolete Paper!

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My current project is to replace an older Comdial PBX with a Cisco CallManager Express.  The goal is to expand capacity and features for one...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Neuron: Generating a CSR for Cisco ISE and Windows 2003 CA

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If you have a Windows 2003 based Certificate Authority (CA) in your enterprise, you need to keep one thing in mind when generating a Certifi...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Hello? ¿Hola? No, Bonjour!

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Last fall I helped a local school district install a Cisco wireless network consisting of 1142n APs and a 5508 controller.  All was working ...
Friday, June 29, 2012

Case of the Missing Switch -- Solved

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A month or so ago I posted a plea for help  in reference to a strange problem I was having with a customer's switches.  The basic proble...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Not your Father's CiscoWorks...

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It's budget time and as such I've been playing with several demos of Cisco products trying to figure out what is worth fighting for ...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

The Case of the Missing Switches

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One of my clients had me setup a new Cisco network side by side with their existing HP ProCurve network last fall.  The two networks are lin...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Backup Your VLAN Database

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A junior admin at XYZ corporation was tasked with adding a switch to the XYZ network.  He grabbed a spare switch out of stock that had been ...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Automatic Recovery for Err-disabled Interfaces

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There are four primary states for interfaces on Cisco switches: up, down, administratively disabled and err-disabled.  Up and down are fairl...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

No Port for You! Using Cisco Port Security

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Most Cisco switches support a feature known as Port Security.  Port security gives the network engineer the ability to have more granular co...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Neuron: Cisco Switch Firmware Archive Command

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First I should introduce this type of post.  For this blog, a neuron will be a short tidbit of information. Anyone that has upgraded a Cis...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Cisco Nexus 1000v Roundup

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This post is merely an index for the 6 post series I did on the Cisco Nexus 1000v.  I hope that beyond being a good learning experience for ...
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Cisco Nexus 1000v - Adding Physical Ports (Part 6)

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The previous posts have established a fully configured, but unused Nexus 1000v.  At this point it's like having a physical switch in the...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Cisco Nexus 1000v Software Installation (Part 5)

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In this article I will run through installing the Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) and creating the initial port groups on the Nexus 1000v. I...

Cisco Nexus 1000v Software Installation (Part 4)

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In the last post, I configured the VMWare stock vSwitch to allow us to start the Nexus 1000v install.  I forgot to mention one thing that I ...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Cisco Nexus 1000v Software Installation (Part 3)

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In this article I will examine the process of configuring the default VMWare vSwitch with the VLANs needed to start the Nexus 1000v Install....