Sync Microsoft Domain Time To A Cisco NTP Device
Nov17

Sync Microsoft Domain Time To A Cisco NTP Device

KB ID 0001038 Problem I’ve been posting domain time articles for a long time, and on more than one occasion I’ve really needed to take my Windows time from a Cisco Device and failed miserably. I’ve even used third party NTP software to solve this problem on my own test network. On a client network, my colleague deployed ACS5 this week, I secured the ASA5585-X for AAA and it failed authentication. Logging revealed a...

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Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows  Part One (Active Directory Integration)
Nov17

Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows Part One (Active Directory Integration)

KB ID 0001074 Problem To carry out this procedure you should have your ISE appliance deployed, with all the basic settings on it. Over the next few articles I’m going to connect the ISE appliance to Active Directory, then configure the ISE Appliance for 802.1x. Configure RADIUS on both the appliance, and on my Cisco Switches. Then finally configure Windows Group Policy to enable the clients to authenticate to 802.1x. Solution 1....

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Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows  Part Two – Configuring 802.1x Policies
Nov17

Cisco ISE – Basic 802.1x With Windows Part Two – Configuring 802.1x Policies

KB ID 0001075 D Problem Back in Part One, we joined Cisco ISE to Active Directory, now we we will take the built in ISE policies and change them. This will allow our clients to authenticate, with the correct protocols. Solution 1. By default ISE will use pretty much any available protocol, we are going to use PEAP, although I’m also going to allow EAP-TLS (it’s more secure and if I start rolling out certificates I’ve...

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HP / 3COM –  Setup the V1910-24G Switch
Nov17

HP / 3COM – Setup the V1910-24G Switch

KB ID 0000495 Dtd 20/08/11 Problem I was surprised this week when I went to fit one of these switches, I know HP bought 3Com some time ago but when I popped open the HP box I did not expect to see a 3Com switch. Anyway, heres a very quick run down on initial setup (assign IP and secure the system passwords). Solution 1. On the chassis locate the sticker with the serial number on it, on here it will show you the IP address that its set...

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