by skufel | Sep 4, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin
When I got Riverbed Stellhead 250H for Lab environment, first thing I checked was version of RiOS on device. It turns out that device was outdated and had RiOS 5.5.6, while current version is 7.0.3. Next thing I did was jump on Riverbed Support web page to identify...
by skufel | Sep 1, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, Security, SysAdmin, Windows
As a part of preparation for monitoring our WIndows Server 2008 R2 using SNMP and Nagios we had to add SNMP Services to few systems which didn’t have it yet. So, based on that fact I thought it might be nice to capture all steps involved in adding SNMP to...
by skufel | Sep 1, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, Security
Whole idea for that article came from real environment. At home I have DrayTek Vigor 2850n as my broadband router (and in fact it is really nice piece of equipment). Same time I’m using some Cisco equipment located in remote Lab for testing purposes. Remote Lab...
by skufel | Aug 29, 2012 | Apple, Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin
Despite all reservations to iPad as a device which might be useful in day-to-day IT Pro activities (was thinking about it more as a toy than tool) I found it really handy after some time. One of main reasons I found iPad cool IT tool was ability to connect to Cisco...
by skufel | Aug 29, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network, SysAdmin, Virtualization
In one of the previous articles I did quick overview How-to Install vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5 on VMware Workstation 9. One of the reasons I did that in my Lab environment was to run Cisco Nexus 1000v with NX-OS on it and evaluate this operating system and how it can...
by skufel | Jul 26, 2012 | Infrastructure, Network
This is one of those things I always forget when is needed. How to redirect console output to telnet session when debugging something on Cisco device. So, not to forget it I record it for future reference (I guess from now on I will remember that, but well.. what you...