For the past few years, many people have been suggesting that the days of IDS (intrusion detection system) are numbered. When … [Read more...]
Monitoring VRFs on IOS-XR
14 June 2013 by Leave a Comment
Lately I have been investigating how to monitor BGP peering session via SNMP instead of traps/syslog messages and I found out … [Read more...]
Information Hoarders
31 May 2013 by 10 Comments
I make no secret of my love for Seth Godin and his amazing insight into the world. Besides being a marketing genius, he's … [Read more...]
Programming 101 for Network Engineers – Basic Language Elements & Concepts 2
23 May 2013 by 6 Comments
Welcome to the fourth part of the Programming 101 for Network Engineers series and part two of the Basic Language Elements … [Read more...]
Review: ScienceLogic – One Network Management Tool to Rule Them All?
23 May 2013 by 6 Comments
ScienceLogic has been getting the right kind of press recently - e.g. they were a winner of Best of Interop 2013 - … [Read more...]
Programming 101 for Network Engineers – Basic Language Elements & Concepts 1
20 May 2013 by 4 Comments
Welcome to the third part of the Programming 101 for Network Engineers series. This is likely to be the most 'straight up' … [Read more...]
How to Turn Your IOS Router Into a Pr0n Server (Pr0n Not Included)
7 May 2013 by 5 Comments
No, really! Did you know that your IOS-based router is capable as acting as a static webserver? Below you will find the … [Read more...]
Getting the Most Out of SPAN or Mirror Ports
6 May 2013 by 2 Comments
In my previous blog post I looked at the benefits and limitations of SPAN ports. SPAN or mirror ports are a convenient way of … [Read more...]
A Data Center Delivers Apps – So Shouldn’t We Monitor App Delivery?
27 April 2013 by 19 Comments
Dinner with His Toadishness, Derick Winkworth, the other night rolled into a 3+ hour discussion of avant garde ways to do … [Read more...]
Fighting Stale Documentation
14 April 2013 by 2 Comments
In my continuing series on the decidedly boring, I would like to discuss the subtle, yet paralyzing, evil of stale … [Read more...]
Using IP SLA Delay Feature to Safely Monitor Lossy Links
22 March 2013 by 4 Comments
IP SLA is a great feature if you want to add some automation and intelligence into the network. SLA is no SDN/OpenFlow, but … [Read more...]
NetCitadel and Software Defined Security
21 February 2013 by 5 Comments
It's been an exciting couple of weeks in the security realm, with a number of innovative startups appearing. That's … [Read more...]
Pull My Strings, I’m Your Puppet: Juniper Bringing DevOps to Networking
21 February 2013 by 5 Comments
The buzzword in the industry of late is DevOps. It is one that I hope isn't tarnished by the marketing machine where … [Read more...]
Benefits & Limitations of SPAN Ports
14 February 2013 by 9 Comments
A mirror or SPAN (switch port analyzer) port can be a very useful resource if used in the correct way. SPAN ports are … [Read more...]
Bash Script to Gather All Your Cisco Serial Numbers via SNMP
10 February 2013 by 3 Comments
Recently, I was doing a true up of our Cisco SmartNet contract, and had to get the serial numbers from all of the Cisco … [Read more...]
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