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Month: May 2019

Cisco Live 2019… It’s Almost Go Time!

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| Blog, CLUS
By Bernard Gagnon - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26089903

This is the time of year where network geeks everywhere start to get excited. Cisco Live US 2019 is less than two weeks away. The closer we get the more I get distracted by trying to cram the most stuff into the week of summer camp for geeks. Here are some of my tips and […]

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How to Waste an Entire Day Troubleshooting One Phone… and Then Fix It in Less Than 5 Seconds

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| Blog, phones, recycled blog posts, troubleshooting

This article was originally posted on July 8th, 2013 to my old blog. I thought that it was still interesting and relevant enough to be recycled. The Symptoms So last week was a short one for me with the combination of the 4th of July holiday and some vacation time. Unfortunately, the last working day […]

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Windows Server OpenSSH for Cisco ISE

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| Blog, cisco, configuration, howto

Recently I had to replace an older Windows server. Over the years this server had acquired multiple additional roles. One of those was being the backup target for our Cisco ISE servers. While I could have just installed FileZilla and continued to use FTP, I decided to get OpenSSH installed and use SFTP instead. Installing […]

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LibreNMS

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Although I don’t currently run LibreNMS in my own network, it is one of those tools that I keep in my toolbox. LibreNMS is a fork of the Observium project. The tool is written in PHP and can be run on any Linux with either Apache or NGINX. Setup One of the reasons I like […]

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Ben Story is a network security engineer for a solution provider. He has been working with networking since 1998, his Freshman year at Truman State University, when he worked for a small dial-up ISP managing their Shiva LanRover modem bank. His random bits and bytes can be found on his blog at https://packitforwarding.com or on Twitter @ntwrk80.

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