Stubby Post - Cisco IOS Petition
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Greg Ferro has brought back the petition for Cisco to provide an emulator to the community for learning. Since our current and only family of emulators is well on Garcinia Mangostana its way to …
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Getting Temperature Data from a 6500 via SNMP
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I apologize to my adoring fans (both of you) for the lack of posting. I’m in the middle of moving, buying a new house, selling my current house, getting a mortgage, etc. I’ve up until …
Filtering Out the Noise on the Edge
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There’s a lot of noise on the Internet. I’m not talking about certain news sites, either; I’m talking about stuff like port scans or attempts on weak services from all sorts of bad …
Using Probes on the CSM
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There are three different ways that a CSM checks for the health of the servers – active probes, inband health checking, and inband HTTP monitoring. Let’s talk about active probes. Active …
Configuring Fault Tolerance on the CSM
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Like (nearly) everything in the Cisco world, you can set up your CSM to fail over to another module when the primary dies a horrible death. You can have two in the same chassis or even have them in …
Setting Up System Logging on an IOS Device
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I like logging on an IOS device. I like to look at the buffer and tell you that your interface went down 30 seconds ago. I like to look on the box and see that BGP with my Internet provider has been …
Using the Pipe in IOS
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A lot of IOS commands give you a lot of information. Most of the time, though, it’s way too much information, and it sure would be nice to do some grep-like stuff on the output, right? Well, …