Category: Management
ASDM Error: Unconnected socket not implemented
When you receive the following error, while starting ASDM: ASDM Error: Unconnected socket not implemented You should look at your Java versions. When you are using Java 6 Update 10 or higher and ASDM 6.1.5 or lower, you will receive this error. There are two workarounds for this problem: Downgrade Java to Java 6 Update … Read More
Cacti Plugin Management and RealTime Plugin
I played a little with Cacti today and installed the Plugin Architecture 2.1. While reading some forums a lot of people are talking about the Plugin Management functionality. I looked and searched in my complete Cacti installation, checked all the configurations which can be made, but I couldn’t find anything about Plugin Management. After some … Read More
Tools Page updated
I added a new tool to the Tools page, called Interface Traffic Indicator. The tool can be compared to STG, but needs to be installed on a workstation. The tool can be used to measure the throughput of a specific interface. To use the tool, you need at least the IP address of the device … Read More
Fully Automated Nagios
A colleague noticed the new developments regarding Nagios. Nagios is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program. I always had my doubts about Nagios, especially about the manageability of the application. The installation and configuration of Nagios can be very time consuming. And a lot of customers are “afraid” of using Nagios, because … Read More
Configuration Example, Management
RADIUS Authentication
I am sure that many of you would like to do the same thing and many of you successfully configured it. I am trying to configure RADIUS Authentication on my Cisco 877W. I have two different RADIUS policies, the first for privilege level 1 and the second for privilege level 15. I am using Microsoft … Read More
Cacti, easy going
A decent management server is very important in a network, at least that is my opinion. The most important aspect of a management server is its user friendliness. Our customers are most of the time busy with their own problems and the problems of end users, which include all kind of (silly) problems. So the … Read More