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Musings in March

Posted by: Terry Slattery on Mar 31, 2009

Maybe you missed the articles I made in March to my blog at Netcordia:

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PCA Issues with Manual Configuration of SSL on Cisco Unity

Posted by: David Hailey on Mar 31, 2009

HaileyIf you've just manually configured SSL on a Cisco Unity server, it's a good idea to verify that PCA still operates as expected.  If you can still access the page but are having problems once you get there, here is what I'd suggest looking at first:

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Capturing Network Traces from the CLI on CUCM and other Cisco UC Appliances

Posted by: William Bell on Mar 30, 2009

As Cisco has moved away from Windows based platforms and to a custom built Linux "appliance" model the tools available to the Cisco UC administrator have changed drastically.  One tool that gives tremendous power to the administrator is the network capture utility on the Cisco UC appliance.

The following is a whirlwind tour and example on using this powerful tool.

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Using DNS SRV Records for Cisco CUCM and CUPS

Posted by: William Bell on Mar 30, 2009

Tagged in: DNS SRV , CUPS , CUCM , Cisco Unified Presence

William BellWhen deploying Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) and Cisco Unified Presence (CUPS) one of the design objectives should be to architect a solution that adds dynamic fault tolerance.  One can achieve this objective by leveraging DNS SRV records.

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MARS 6.0.2 Now Available

Posted by: Rob Chee on Mar 24, 2009

Tagged in: MARS , IPS , ASA

MARS 6.0.2 just came out 12/15/08. The changes are
Cisco ASA 8.0.4 support Cisco ASA 8.1.2 support Cisco IPS 6.1 support
Here's a link to the release notes http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/security_management/cs-mars/6.0/release/notes/rnote602.html#wp83851

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FIPS 140 Under Cisco Global Certifications

Posted by: Pete Welcher on Mar 24, 2009

Tagged in: WLAN , wireless , FIPS 140

Just found this very useful page, which has links to the details of FIPS 140-2 compliance for each device supported. I was checking out wireless (controllers and APs)... http://www.cisco.com/web/strategy/government/security_certification/net_business_benefit_seccert_fips140.html

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Packet Captures with Cisco IOS

Posted by: Rob Chee on Mar 23, 2009

Tagged in: packet captures , IOS 12.4

With Cisco IOS 12.4(20)T, Cisco now supports packet captures on interfaces. This is a welcome addition to the Cisco feature set.

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BGP Path Selection

Posted by: Carole Warner Reece on Mar 23, 2009

Tagged in: weight , local preference , BGP

Carole Warner ReeceI wanted to provide a few notes on BGP route selection criteria, specifically on weights and local preference. First a quick recap. The weight attribute is only local to a single router. This value is not propagated by the BGP protocol to other routers, so can be considered a routing policy local to the router.  However, local preference is assigned to a route as an attribute.

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Prefix-List Practice Quiz

Posted by: Carole Warner Reece on Mar 1, 2009

Tagged in: prefix-list , BGP

Carole Warner Reece
As part of my Networkers 2009 BGP presentation, I put together an online version of a prefix-list practice questions from the Cisco BGP course. You can access the quiz here:

Prefix-List Practice

(The content on the quiz page may take a few seconds to appear.)

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