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Went to Cisco Live last week. One of the best conferences I have been to. So much information that can directly apply to many of the challenges we have at work that I have to take some time to mull it over. I will be posting some interesting findings I have soon. Nexus 5k/2k hardware [...]
Starting this year I was planning on participating in a few online projects regarding blog posting and photography. I was hoping to try and force some normalcy into my life via these projects, basically pursue some hobbies. As you may have noticed that hasn’t happened as of yet. I still want to post more blogs [...]
Greetings everyone, As it has been a busy and productive first day of the year I am just now getting to my first of the year blog post. I have a few goals to be completed this year and some projects that I would like to participate in. Project 52 For the past year I [...]
Often times in the heat of a critical server restart the system decides to FSCK a very large filesystem. If I let it take its natural course it could be a day before its back (for 12TB file systems using ext3). So to stop it from fscking follow this procedure. 1) Restart system 2) When [...]
I have deployed RANCID, a popular open-source network device config backup utility, in our environment. It works great especially when configured to svnsync to a master repository. The recent trouble I have found is RANCID doesnt support multi-context firewalls. There is no way to configure RANCID to detect multi-context mode, go to each context and [...]
So I have been having trouble lately finding things to blog about that aren’t mundane and boring. I also cant spend all day writing about the things I do at work, not enough time to write the posts… So I saw this great movie recently, Moon and I am going to write about that. Moon [...]
In an effort to provide a more secure way to access our network equipment in the event of an outage we setup a console server. We didnt purchase anything from a vendor but built a Cisco Console server. There is little documentation for creating this online so I am going to go through the steps of [...]
I haven’t posted in awhile as life is pretty busy. I am almost done with the DataCenter Migration and we are greatly busy with looking for a Condo in the Bay Area (Perfect time to Buy). We found one condo that we are really interested in but it already has a few offers on it. So [...]
We have been working on building/migrating to a new DC for the past few months and this week the work has really started. I dont have pics of the latest systems I have racked, but the below photos are from earlier this month. I will be posting more photos as the building goes on. Currently [...]
I do a lot of work with the Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance). The GUI interface relies on Java for any non-windows hosts. If you by chance have an ASA with an IPS module installed you will receive a Java Heap Size is too small error. To fix this error I have found no way [...]