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What’s Your Excuse for Not Using Syslog?

One of the things I look for when doing network assessments is the availability of syslog data. I’m always amazed at how few sites seem to be using this valuable [...]

Terry Slattery

Syslog, SNMP Traps, and UDP Packet Loss

I was recently checking out a product that does syslog correlation and noticed that it had not reported a couple of events that I could see in syslog-ng’s log. I [...]

Terry Slattery

Handling Network Events (syslog and snmp traps)

I’ve been doing some more reading about network event handling and found some interesting articles and a few facts that I’d like to share. I have my own ideas about [...]

Terry Slattery

Syslog Summary Script

I just finished posting a neat syslog summary script that was passed to me by Phil Koontz. He uses it every day to keep track of syslog events. The summary [...]

DNAC Tour, Part 5: Using DNAC: Design, Inventory, Swim

This is the fifth in a series of blogs, the DNAC Instant Demo tour. Prior blogs in this series: DNAC Tour Part 1: Introduction to Cisco DNA Center DNAC Tour [...]

Container-Based WAN Monitoring

I’ve been waiting to see some good ideas for things you might run in a container on a Cisco router or switch. What might you do with that, either home-grown [...]

What Business Leaders Should Know About Network Monitoring

Our network assessments often find that organizations don’t allocate funds or staff resources to adequately monitor their network infrastructure. For example, key WAN interfaces will be monitored, but data center interfaces will be ignored.

Complexity and Network Automation

This is the first blog in a series that will dive into the details around a modern approach to network automation. Network automation of complex configurations is much, much harder [...]

What NetCraftsmen Learned at Cisco Live 2018

NetCraftsmen sent a large group of our employees to Cisco Live 2018 with three main goals. First, we wanted to focus on learning and growing our capabilities. Second, we wanted [...]

Some Best Operational Process Practices

You may have noticed that NetCraftsmen does various types of assessments (network, security, etc.). One of the things I have noticed in doing them is that customer operational practices differ [...]

Networking by the 95th Percentile

For a while now, I’ve been mulling over how to tell if interfaces are overloaded in a good automated way. Staring at 1000 interface utilization graphs is not efficient. How [...]

Kentik Finds Truth in the Traffic

#NFD16) and did a great job. I started with high expectations, since I was aware that previous KentiK NFD presentations received high reviews. And I was not disappointed. Who or [...]