Category: Management
Cacti and HP Procurve
Finding a template for HP Procurve switches wasn’t that hard. I needed to find a template for HP Procurve 2510G switches. The place to look for templates is forums.cacti.net. I searched the forums on the key word “procurve”, which resulted in many hits. I used the template from the article HP procurve 2600 series. After … Read More
Cisco IOS 15 licensing
I just read an interesting article about the new licensing on Cisco hardware, especially after the End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4. In short the article tells the following: IOS 12.4 is replaced by IOS 15. IOS 15 is a single software package for the hardware platform that your are using. … Read More
Configuration Example, Management
IPplan – IP address management
A lot of customers have different methods for their IP address management. Most of them use some kind of static documentation, like an Excel sheet. In the past I implemented IPplan multiple times. I like this tool, because it dynamically scans multiple IP subnets, using ICMP and/or Nmap. Another advantage of IPplan is its ability … Read More
Configuration Example, Management
XMODEM recovery speed
Configuring switches and routers is regular work for me. But if I would like to configure a switch or a router, I have to be able to boot the specific device…. Today I had to configure some new Cisco Catalyst 3650(E) en 3750 switches. In total I had 16 switches to configure, but three of … Read More
NVRAM corrupt or broken?
Today some of my colleagues and I “rebuild” an existing ESX with NetApp network. We change multiple VLAN’s and did a lot of reconfiguring. Unfortunately some other people were working on the power, so sometimes all equipment had to power down. After we did our job, we started testing the environment. All DMZ VM’s weren’t … Read More
RSA LDAP query failed
While configuring a LDAP mapping for a RSA Authentication Manager 6.1 with an Active Directory Domain Controller, I received the following error while running the Synchronisation task c:\RSA\prog\sdldapsync.exe -j 102 “[LDAP search] Search failed (check Base DN)” At first I thought about a typo while configuring the Synchronisation task. To test the LDAP connection with … Read More