Searching for a Cisco IP phone manual? This guide will give you a detailed step by step instruction on how to use some of the most basic features. Dial From the Corporate Directory Dial From the Corporate Directory 1. Press…
tracert * * * request timed out? By default if you do a Traceroute behind a Cisco ASA or PIX, you will notice that the ASA is missing in the Traceroute table. ie. the IP address of your ASA does…
Problem: RDP not working over VPN? Getting this error message? VPN Establishment capability from a Remote Desktop is disabled. A VPN Connection will not be established. Solution: By default, VPN establishment capability is disabled once you remote into a remote…
Does my switch/router support Cisco Netflow? If you’ve come here you already know what Cisco Netflow is and you are probably looking for the best way to collect Netflow stats for an unsupported layer 3 switch or router. Well you’ve…
Background: Why configure push email when you can set a very low fetch frequency? Fetching email frequently helps achieves the affect of getting notified of an email earlier. The main problem is however, on a mobile device the more frequent…
Take a copy of the subversion repository In order to migrate a subversion repository you must NOT do a plain copy of the database. You must do a DUMP of the repository. svnadmin dump path/to/repository > repository.dump Restore your repository…
First Install mysqltuner In order to tune mysql database that is running wordpress you must first download and install “mysqltuner”. On my CentOS 5.8 server simply run yum to install it. yum install mysqltuner Run mysqltuner to analyze your database…
It’s really simple to configure NRPE to run under xinetd in Linux. Here’s how to install it. 1. First install nrpe using yum. Your default Redhat/CentOS distro should come with xinetd pre-installed and running. If not, install xinetd as well….
Backing up a Cisco router or switch configuration is crucial for any network administrator. Wouldn’t it be useful if you could schedule an automatic configuration backup to an offline location? Or backup your configuration automatically to an offline location whenever…
Did you know you can backup your running-config or startup-config via ssh? I’ve been backing up configurations via TFTP for a long time but only recently started using SSH. Here’s how to do it. If you have a Linux/Unix server…