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Earlier this week I presented at the Cisco Mid-Atlantic User’s Group (CMUG) with my colleague David Hailey. The focus of my presentation was to cover the basics of the Cisco [...]

Almost all network management products that collect performance data incorporate some type of rollup as the data ages. In most cases, the data over longer time intervals is averaged and [...]

I don’t intend to argue the merits of the suit, except to say that I’m skeptical that people really know what they mean when they say “best practice.” (I’ve written [...]

Implementing Changes Once you have your network policies defined, see the prior posts Building Configuration Policy Checks, Part 2, then implemented in a configuration policy check, you need a way [...]

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On April 26, 2011, I presented “What’s New in Data Center Technologies” for C-MUG in Columbia, MD. I presented a CMUG session discussing new technologies: FabricPath Fiber Channel (FC) / [...]

The compromise of RSA token keys has lots of people understandably worried. In theory, an attacker could gain enough information to generate real key codes, and thereby fool your authentication systems into giving them unauthorized access to your systems and data – a scary proposition.

I’m building configuration policy checks for a customer and realized that it would be beneficial to share the design choices and implementation details that I encountered. The tool that I [...]

The Problem I’m working with a customer who has a large number of devices that are configured with static IP addresses and are not in their local DNS or WINS. [...]

The Cisco Video Communication Server (VCS) is a call processing engineer that was added to the Cisco Collaboration and Unified Communications portfolio as part of the Tandberg acquisition. The VCS is a very impressive solution that is able to fulfill the role of a H.323 gatekeeper and SIP registrar. Actually,…

I’ve been working with Steve Meyer at NetCraftsmen on Qos policies for a customer where they have voice, interactive video (i.e. Telepresence), video conferencing, streaming video, and business applications. They [...]

Coming up for the April 26, 2011 Cisco Mid-Atlantic User Group (C-MUG) session, Pete Welcher will be discussing What’s New in Data Center Technologies. He plans to go over “newer” [...]