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The first component of a good network management system is an event handling system. A basic event handling system can be easily implemented with open source tools like Syslog Summary [...]

I just finished spending two days in San Jose, participating in the Gestalt IT Network Field Day, an event dreamed up by Stephen Foskett and Greg Ferro. Twelve delegates who [...]

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I’ve written in this blog about various reasons for using network automation but it is time to put them together. Counting down… 7. Performance and SLAs The first thing that [...]

Device naming standards are boring. Why should we even talk about them? When you’re in the middle of a network melt-down and you are having problems remembering device names and [...]

This past week I had to update selected edge ports on a set of Cisco Catalyst 4507 and 4510 switches.  Two things forced me to take the time to use [...]

The Baltimore-Washington area has been hit with several significant snow storms this winter and those storms have impacted the operations of a large metropolitan area network.  Problems range from power [...]

Have you ever had a Cisco router or switch shutdown due to a fan failure?  While looking through Applied Infrastructure blog under

Every once in a while I get asked if there is a better way to distribute firmware to phones across the WAN. The obvious driver is the general performance (or lack thereof) for the standard TFTP approach when handling a large number of requests. This is one of those questions that usually…

I’m continuing the list of NMS event handling requirements. Unstable interfaces In the last post, Syslog Summary Script. -Terry _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Re-posted with Permission  NetCraftsmen would like to acknowledge Infoblox for [...]

I’ve been examining the handling of event data and wanted to share what I see as common requirements.  For the next few posts, I’ll describe the requirements and why they [...]

With most network management systems and network security systems, SNMP is a critical component. One great tool for checking SNMP functionality is net-snmp. This tool works with Windows and Linux. From a security perspective, this net-snmp can be used as another troubleshooting tool to ensure that Cisco MARS and Cisco…