About Lindsay Hill

Lindsay (@northlandboy) has spent most of the last 10 years working in the fuzzy areas between Unix, networking, security and applications. He is CCIE #36708, and now consulting in network monitoring/management. When it all gets a bit much, he rides off on his bicycle across continents.

Using SNMP Config Management to Fix Screw-Ups on a Remote Device

29 July 2012 by Lindsay Hill 6 Comments

There’s been plenty of talk around here about complex network control through SDN, Netconf/Yang network virtualisation, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Network Management Tagged With: cisco-config-copy, oid, snmp, tftp

HP IMC 5.1 SP1 Update

10 July 2012 by Lindsay Hill 1 Comment

A few months ago I wrote a review of HP's Intelligent Management Center (IMC). There were some things I liked, some things I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Network Management Tagged With: hp, imc, Network management

Will Engineers Hold Networking Back?

23 June 2012 by Lindsay Hill 22 Comments

There’s been a lot of noise about SDN recently, not least due to well-timed announcements from Cisco. Almost every major … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, SDN, Work Life

HP IMC: Email Alerting

21 May 2012 by Lindsay Hill 3 Comments

HP’s Intelligent Management Center supports the use of email or SMS for alarm notification. It’s trivial to add a rule to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Network Management Tagged With: hp, imc, Network management

HP IMC: Backup Cisco ASAs via SSH

30 April 2012 by Lindsay Hill 3 Comments

Recently, I wrote a review of HP’s Intelligent Management Center. One of the things I mentioned having problems with was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Network Management Tagged With: imc, Network management, SSH

Review: HP IMC – Intelligent Management Center

1 April 2012 by Lindsay Hill 12 Comments

When you mention HP and "network management" to most people, they think of OpenView - one of the earliest players in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Network Management Tagged With: expect scripting, hp, imc, intelligent management center, Network management, snmp

Catch Unexpected Reboots Through Monitoring sysUpTimeInstance

24 February 2012 by Lindsay Hill 10 Comments

If a router reboots, but the monitoring system didn't poll it during that reboot time, did it really reboot? You might … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Network Management Tagged With: nms, snmp, uptime

SNMPv3 – Do It Now

12 October 2011 by Lindsay Hill 2 Comments

This blog post is about SNMPv3, and why you should be using it instead of SNMPv1/v2c on your network. It is not about SNMP in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Network Management, Security Tagged With: encryption, Network management, snmpv3

vNICS: Good Idea, Some Annoying Limitations

7 September 2011 by Lindsay Hill 1 Comment

Recently we were implementing a backup site for a web-based application. The primary site uses a blade chassis, with multiple … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Switching, Virtualization Tagged With: 802.1q, bnt, fcoe, fibre channel, iscsi, nortel, SAN, virtualization, vmware, vnic

Who is Greg Ferro?

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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Who is Ethan Banks?

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, is a hands-on networking practitioner who has designed, built and maintained networks for higher education, state government, financial institutions, and technology corporations. Ethan is a host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over one million unique downloads, and today reaches a global audience of over ten thousand listeners. Also a writer, Ethan covers network engineering and the networking industry for a variety of IT publications. He is also the editor for the independent community of bloggers at PacketPushers.net. Follow @ecbanks.