Force Media Center to Update its Libraries
Nov17

Force Media Center to Update its Libraries

KB ID 0000627  Problem I use Media Center a lot, and the one thing that bugs me is, every time I add a new film or TV series etc, I have to restart Media Center, restart services, or reboot the entire media PC before I can see them in the list. After some searching it appears that Media Center uses the same repository/database of media that Windows Media Player uses. There is a convoluted method of stopping services, deleting files...

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GNS3 – Routers Lose their Certificates When Restarted
Nov17

GNS3 – Routers Lose their Certificates When Restarted

KB ID 0000955  Problem I was doing some work with PKI and routers today, and after spending ages enrolling all my routers for certificates, I thought I’d save my hard work and return to it later. When I started the project up again, I was less than happy all the devices certificates had ‘Disappeared’! Solution This is default behavior, to change this select Edit > Preferences > Dynamips > Locate...

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Cisco Router – Password Recovery /Bypass
Nov17

Cisco Router – Password Recovery /Bypass

KB ID 0000931  Problem If you have a Cisco router that you have forgotten the password for, or have been given one, or simply bought one from ebay, you may not know the password. In fact many years ago an ISP was going to charge me a ridiculas amount of money to put an entry in a routers routing table, this procedure ‘ahem’ would have allowed to to do it myself, for free, and then reload the router. Solution The reason you...

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Cisco ASA 5500 – Reset / Recycle VPN Tunnels
Nov17

Cisco ASA 5500 – Reset / Recycle VPN Tunnels

KB ID 0000586  Problem I’ve been asked this before and it came up on EE today, basically you have a site to site VPN tunnel and you either want to restart it or reset it. Solution Cisco ASA Reset ALL VPN Tunnels 1. Connect to your ASA, then to reset ALL your ISAKMP VPN tunnels use the following command; clear crypto isakmp sa In the example below I’ve reset ALL my tunnels. I had a constant ping running across the VPN, and...

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Cisco ASA 5500-X Restart the FirePOWER Service Module
Nov17

Cisco ASA 5500-X Restart the FirePOWER Service Module

KB ID 0001101  Problem I’ve only just recently started to work with these, the advantage of them is they are great for SOHO and SMB, and they don’t need additional SSD drives installing. Note: This also procedure works on the larger ASA5500-X firewalls that have Firepower installed on an internal SSD drive, (i.e. 5512,5515,5525, and 5545 etc.) While getting them to work with a Sourcefire appliance, I had to...

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