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Because NetCraftsmen is now offering a free 30 dial trial of Netcordia's NetMRI software (at Netcordia NetMRI 4 Trial Download), we have had some recent discussions on the best way to run a trial.

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Here is a recap of articles I posted in May to my blog at Netcordia:

• "How's the network running? More on SLAs" discusses Service Level Agreements (SLAs) based on network QoS.
• "Anti-spoofing filters" describes why organize should use anti-spoofing filters to exclude packets that have invalid source addresses.
• "Config Policy and Operational Data" provides another example for incorporating operational data with configurations for performing configuration compliance validation.
• "Calling All Devices - What's on the network?" looks at device discovery mechanisms.

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• "Device and Interface Groups Aid Config Policy" discusses why to use roles to group devices and categorize interfaces. This technique will improve your ability to support configuration validation.
• "Configuration Policy Validation" looks at auditing existing configurations to make sure that they match your organization's policies. This article extends the "NANOG Posting on Configuration Analysis" article.
• "NANOG Posting on Configuration Analysis" adds to a recent exchange on the NANOG mailing list about configuration management.

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• "Network Management Sucks!!!" discusses why I think Jimmy Ray Purser, a blogger for Cisco and Network World, is right on target in his article 'Network Management Sucks!!!' about the deficiency of most network management systems.
• "Event Reporting" talks about at collecting and managing event reporting for syslog and SNMP traps.
• "VoiceCon Spring 2009 Orlando, FL" describes my plans to present a tutorial on VoIP Troubleshooting, Monitoring, and Metrics as well as lead a panel discussion on Network Management: Finding the Right Tools atVoiceCon Spring 2009.
• "Device Modeling" describes why I think that using network confiugration management systems that model network devices may not be worth the effort.

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