Cisco ISE NFR Appliance Setup
KB ID 0001066 Problem The Cisco ISE NFR appliance is for demos and test bench use, I’m currently building a test lab for ISE so I spun a copy up. I looked at the associated ReadMe.pdf for instructions on the basic setup, and found a hyper-link to the instructions, that didn’t work! bah. Solution The appliance comes as an OVA file for importation into vSphere/ESX, I’m assuming you have already imported the appliance....
IP Address Conflicts with VMware ESX and Cisco ASA
KB ID 0000635 Problem My colleague was setting up a DMZ server for one of our clients, it was a virtual server that was presented to the DMZ of a Cisco ASA 5510. Every time he gave it a static IP address it popped up an IP address conflict (no matter what the IP address was). Windows has detected an IP address conflict Another computer on this network has the same IP address as this computer. Contact your network administrator for...
CentOS (RHEL) Installing VMware Tools in ESX
KB ID 0000888 Problem This was a much more complicated job than I expected it to be! The following procedure is done on CentOS 6, so will be the same for Red Hat Enterprise 6. Solution 1. Connect to the server via SSH, (or open a terminal session). Logon as, (or su to) root. 2. Execute the following commands; yum install make gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers glibc-headers perl mkdir /mnt/cdrom 3. Then present the VMware tools CD to the...
CentOS 7 – No Network Connection
KB ID 0001047 Problem A while ago I spun up a CentOS server in VMware Workstation, and I could not get it connected to the network, I was in a bit of a hurry, so I blew it away and just built a new server with CentOS 6. This week I’ve been using VirtualBox and spun up a new CentOS 7 server and had the same problem. Solution 1. Quite why CentOS 7 does this I’m not sure, My NIC is called enp0s3 (run ‘ip addr’ to...
Installing the BackTrack Linux VMware Virtual Machine
KB ID 0000631 Problem I’m fortunate enough that VMware gave me a free copy of VMware Workstation, but there’s nothing to stop you carrying out this procedure with the FREE VMware player. BackTrack Linux is an operating system that is primarily used for security auditing, and penetration testing. I’m going to be playing with it a bit in the coming weeks, so I thought I’d at least document how to get it running....