Cisco FirePOWER User Agent – Use With the FirePOWER Management Console
KB ID 0001179 Problem FirePOWER Management Center, will give you a wealth of information on traffic/threats etc. Usually it will tell you what IP the offenders are on, but if you want to know what a USER is doing, then that means you have to look though logs see who had what IP, at what time etc. So you can install the FirePOWER User Agent on a machine, (this can be a client machine, though I usually put it on a member server). You...
Setup RANCID and ViewVC (Part Two) Adding Cisco Devices
KB ID 0001332 Problem Before on Part One we setup our RANCID and ViewVC server ready to start backing up our devices, now we will look at adding the devices, and automating the backup process. Solution To add a Cisco device you need to do TWO things*. Firstly you need to add and entry in the ‘router.db’ file that lives in the ‘Group’ folder you created back in part one. Secondly you need to add the access...
An Invalid Directory Pathname Was Passed
KB ID 0001338 Problem While attempting to delegate administration of an OU, I got this error; Delegation of Control Wizard The wizard cannot retrieve security information from the Active Directory. An invalid directory pathname was passed. Solution Took a while to figure out! The OU in question has a ‘slash’ in the name of it; Once I changed this to a hyphen, the error ceased. Related Articles, References, Credits, or...
Using LDP to Find an Objects ‘Distinguished Name’ in Active Directory
KB ID 0001337 Problem There are a few occasions when you need to know an objects ‘Distinguished Name’ (DN). For me it’s usually when I’ve got a device that needs to do LDAP/LDAPS lookups, (RSA Appliance, Netscaler, Cisco FirePOWER, etc). Today someone needed to ‘bind’ a Checkpoint firewall to Active Directory, and asked me to create user, and give them the DN and password. I’ve mentioned...
Windows – Unable to Move an OU
KB ID 0001336 Problem I was doing some AD redesign work for a client this week, and I needed to move an Organisational Unit (OU). However the domain had other ideas; Active Directory Domain Services Windows cannot move object {OU-Name} because: Access is denied. It wasn’t a rights issue, (I was an Enterprise Administrator). Solution As it turns out, it was the same problem I’d had back when Server 2008 first came out...