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The Cisco Security Agent Management Center (CSA MC) provides the central management for CSA. The Agents check in with the CSA MC to make sure they have the latest policy and version of software. For this reason, it is important that the CSA MC be a stable server that is…

One excellent command for viewing ASA SNMP OIDs is "show snmp-server oidlist". It appears that this is a hidden command, based on the ASA 8.0 Reference Guide. This command provides information on the OID and name associated with it. I've included an example below:

Cisco NAC version 4.1.8 has been released. The release notes spell out the changes.The general NAC Manager/Server enhancements are CAS Fallback Behavior Enhancement CAS HA Pair Link-Detect Configuration Enhancement DHCP Failover Behavior Enhancement Additionally, there are number of agent fixes. Posted by Rob Chee

Some network configuration management vendors are building systems that model network devices.  Their intent is that their customers will find that working with a model of a router or switch [...]

I wrote a previous blog entry that gave information creating a self-signed SSL certificate with Apache. I recently also had to create a self-signed SSL certificate for Microsoft IIS. It turns out that this is really easy.

Chesapeake Netcraftsmen hosts the monthly Cisco Miad-Atlantic Users Group (C-MUG) meeting. Last month we had a presentation on NAC Architectures and on Troubleshooting ASA. You can view the presentation slides at the  C-MUG Archive. Posted by Rob Chee

I’m working on a QoS job and we’re not trusting the phones.  I presume that most everyone has heard of the hacking that some fellows did to break into a [...]

The Cisco VPN client is the client side application used to encrypt traffic from an end user's computer to the company network. IPSec is used to encrypt the traffic. When using standard IPSec, IKE is used for the key negotiation and IPSec to encrypt the data. IKE uses UDP port…

I recently did a recording for Cisco of a presentation that I’ve done at VoiceCon about troubleshooting VoIP in converged networks.   This recording, along with links to the audio files [...]

I’ll periodically run into someone who is attempting to implement policy routing by modifying interface bandwidth statements.  What they’re trying to do is to have traffic prefer a certain path [...]

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On Jan 15 and 16, Chesapeake Netcraftsmen will be hosting the Cisco Mid-Atlantic User Group meeting. For more details, go to our Cisco Mid-Atlantic User Group page.Below are the speakers and topics: