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Archive Cisco Configuration Changes on the Cheap

I enjoy solving problems on a shoe string budget with next to no resources. Well… not really. But, because I work with small businesses from time to time that often is the main design requirement. Another design requirement that often doesn’t fall in line with “cheap” is disaster recovery. Fortunately I was able to talk the clients into Cisco gear at one point in the past. I’m about to show you why. Continue reading

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Cisco Identity Services Engine

I recently had the opportunity to attend a Cisco Gold lab focused on Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE). I was particularly interested in the capabilities of the ISE that would help us deal with the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) mess we are starting to get into. I found ISE to be very robust and powerful. Continue reading

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Cisco Two or More IP Addresses

I wanted to take an opportunity to share an experience I had recently and explain how I resolved it.  The situation I walked into was quite ugly.  A small consulting firm had helped install some new switches at a medium sized business.  They basically did a rip and replace.  Before the replacement the network was configured with four VLANs; One VLAN for IP cameras, IP Phones, a few isolated APs, and of course corporate PC data.  The bad news was that the fly-by-night consulting firm had a tech on this job that knew nothing about VLANs.  Can you see the … Continue reading

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Keeping Time on Cisco IOS

When doing any type of troubleshooting I am big on log files. To get the most out of your log files, however, you need the time stamps to be accurate. For time stamps to be accurate you need to ensure your systems are all running with exactly the same time Continue reading

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