Cisco ASA – I Cannot Ping External Addresses?  (Troubleshooting ICMP)
Nov17

Cisco ASA – I Cannot Ping External Addresses? (Troubleshooting ICMP)

KB ID 0000914  Problem Considering we use ICMP to test connectivity, the fact that it is not a stateful protocol can be a major pain! Last week one of my colleagues rang me up and said, “Can you jump on this firewall, I’ve got no comms, and I cant ping external IP addresses. I can ping the internet from the firewall and I can ping internal IP addresses form the firewall”. Solution 1. Before we start, lets get the basics...

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Configure Your Firewall for SNMP
Nov17

Configure Your Firewall for SNMP

KB ID 0001034  Problem Had a requirement to let SNMP traffic though a firewall this week, I have a client that has both SolarWinds and SCOM, and they need to monitor the external Citrix ADC load balancers. For SNMP we simply need UDP ports 161 and 162 (See below) but SolarWinds maintains ‘ping’ connectivity to the monitored assets, so ICMP also needs to be open. Inbound Ports Outbound Ports Solution As my ‘weapon of...

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