Thanks to Cisco's push to deploy more Thousand Eyes agents, the Catalyst team has given us an easy button for deploying agents to the Catalyst 9300 and 9400 switches using Catalyst Center, formally DNA Center. The agent is deployed as a docker container using the App-hosing framework built natively into the 9300 and 9400 series … Continue reading Deploy Thousand Eyes Agent using Catalyst Center (DNAC)
Starting with Firepower 7.2 Cisco announced the ability to manage these firewalls using a Cisco hosted Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center (cdFMC). I recently had a project setting up cdFMC for the first time so I figure I would go over what I learned and show how to access cdFMC, how to import policies, and join … Continue reading Cisco Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center
You read that right! At Cisco Live this year they introduced the ability to add Catalyst switches to the Meraki dashboard. Finally a use for the unused DNA licenses! The switches are monitored in read-only mode, so you still need to manage the switches the old fashioned way, however Meraki's traffic analysis and troubleshooting tools … Continue reading Catalyst Monitoring on the Meraki Dashboard
Both AWS and Azure sell the idea of inherent high-availability and scalability within their cloud services. Many companies bought into that idea and dove head-first thinking that, once in the cloud, the provider will provide the redundancy natively. With the recent AWS S3 outage many customers learned the hard way that this is not the … Continue reading Redundancy in the Cloud: The need for well-designed applications
Cisco Meraki has been working hard to expand their portfolio of cloud controlled devices this year with VOIP phones and IP security cameras. Customers who currently have a Meraki network will be glad to hear that both phones and security cameras are configured in the same dashboard we are all familiar with. Both devices are … Continue reading 2016 Brings New Additions to the Meraki Family
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