Cisco SFR Cant Ping its Default Gateway?
KB ID 0001575 Problem This is a strange one? I was deploying FirePOWER to a pair of ASA 5550-8-X firewalls in Active / Standby failover last week. After each SFR was updated (via ASDM.) I could no longer ‘ping it’, the SFR itself could ping everything on the same VLAN, APART from its own default gateway, (which was an SVI on the Cisco 3750 switch it was connected to). This happened every time I updated the SFR, (or...
PowerShell – Getting Server IP Address Information
KB ID 0001404 Problem I’ve been rebuilding some Hyper-V hosts over the last few weeks, and one thing I learned rebuilding VMware ESX hosts is, ‘make sure you know what all the network cards are doing before you flatten it!’ The same is true of storage as well but here I’m just concentrating on networking. List Network Cards and MAC Addresses If you have these documented you can rename the network card correctly...
NetScaler – Locate the Host ID
KB ID 0001187 Problem To apply a license to your NetScaler you need the supply the Host ID to the licensing portal. A quick internet search yielded the commands, but the were not working? Solution Note: If this is a new installation, the username and password will both be set to nsroot. Whatever I was reading, didn’t tell me I needed to drop to shell mode! shell lmutil lmhostid As you can see this ones 0050569d5a96, (which I...
HP Networking – Tracing Networks and Locating IP addresses
KB ID 0001110 After not touching one for a couple of years, I was back on HP switches recently, and I had to map out a clients switches. Now I could have used some software, but they didn’t have SNMP enabled so, I had to ‘re acquaint’ myself with LLDP. For a basic LLDP View of attached devices. HP-Switch-1# show lldp info remote-device LLDP Remote Devices Information LocalPort | ChassisId PortId PortDescr SysName...
VMware View 5 – Configure and Deploy Clients in ‘Kiosk Mode’
KB ID 0000610 Problem Kiosk mode is quite useful, if you have some machines that you want to put in a public area for visitors to use, or for machines that are used in displays etc. Or if you have some older PC’s that you just want to repurpose as internet terminals or ‘point of sale’ box’s. Essentially it’s a system that delivers a virtual VMware View desktop to a PC or Thin client without the need to...