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Re: Port Security for Foundry/Brocade
Looks like it is supported on the FCX series but you (might) need an upgrade: MAC Port Security
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Re: How to monitor SolarWinds Server with Network/SAN Outage?
That is the problem with the way server farms are now. We also had an issue that the SAN crashed, and we did not get a single page. I feel your pain - but we got kinda lucky - My solution was to build...
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Thank you dclick for your response and sharing your idea. I'm still looking for some cheap solftware solution for our environment and hopefully someone out there will give me a hint!
View ArticleRe: What network support and troubleshooting are in your software toolkit?
personally I'm a big fan of Net-SNMP, PuTTY, VIM, and then all the standard utils (ping, traceroute, etc).
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NCM Device Running config back up error
HiI am getting this type of error in NCM. It cannot take device backup running configuration error. I pasted a few lines.Please tell me how to resolve it to run it smoothly. Job Engine: WCSOLARW...
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Re: NCM Device Running config back up error
Hi tarunklu, Check these 2 threads, you should be able to find some useful formation to solve the issues:Connectivity issues, discarding configuration (or configuration is too short)Connectivity...
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MTPuttyPuTTY (for Plink)Excel - Yes excel that I write scrips against information in columns to send to Plink to pull data - like get small number of interface configs from 2 Nexus 5ks in VTP at the...
View ArticleRe: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
You should have your interface drops JUMP through the roof. That would have / should have been an indication of something is not quite right. You can also use NCM to track changes and get reports...
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Keeping Cardholder Data Safe - Meeting PCI requirements for routers and...
The PCI specified controls for network devices help build and maintain a secure network. The standard requires measures to be taken to restrict access to confidential data/system components and...
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Re: OnPage for SolarWinds
I know there is another post about it - BUT - does anyone USE onpage? Do you use it with AlertCentral?
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Re: What network support and troubleshooting are in your software toolkit?
Wireshark, Putty, ping etc.
View ArticleRe: Cable Management, in Theory and Practice
These are great. To add one thing to the extensive list CourtesyIT provided is red cables for uplink ports. The red is for touch it and die for the other IT professionals that work in our racks.
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I understand that there can be "many hands in the pot", but I always try to do any actions in the racks i can or there is a group/team that is tasked with that effort per my capacity requests. There...
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Some things we like to do: Uplink/Cross-over: WhiteProduction: GreenOut-of-band mgmt: BlueDrac: Orange We also label each end of a cable and group based on where they are coming from. Redundant power...
View ArticleRe: Port Security for Foundry/Brocade
This works on the FCX, FGS, and ICX series switches. # interface Ethernet x/x/x# port security# secure-mac-address HHHH.HHHH.HHHH# violation restrict/shutdown# enable
View ArticleRe: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
Using NCM, we have a daily job scheduled to download a config and cache if it has changed from the previous. However this obviously would not work if you are not an admin of the device.
View ArticleRe: What is complexity?
I would say that the complexity of a network is based on many things.Number of remote sitesNumber of devices and distance between devicesTypes of devices (firewalls, vpn, routers, switches, SAN,...
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NCM is an extremely useful tool for making changes across multiple devices. We use it when adding/deleting users primarily.
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Re: Any way to detect changes in a WAN interface?
you could create threshold alerts. max threshold and min. thresholds.
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I am assuming you contacted your network provider and verified that they are not currently having any issues? Perhaps this is a bit level one but at the same time I don't know how many times we've...
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