My latest project has been a switch refresh and a deployment of a Catalyst Center with Assurance only for a customer across off of their sites. Now the task I had at hand was how can I use Catalyst Center to automate as much configuration on the switches as possible. Because we were only licensed … Continue reading Configuration Automation using Catalyst Center with Assurance
In my ongoing effort to randomly write about what I am actively working on, I am currently deploying an SD-Access fabric using Cisco's DNA Center, now rebranded as Catalyst Center. As part of this project we used the LAN automation process to build the network to all of the access switches. We had about 15 different switches … Continue reading Using DNA Center (Catalyst Center) LAN Automation to make your life easier.
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
This is going to be a quick blog, but I just ran into this issue last night when converting an ASA516-X from standard ASA code, to new Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) code. Let me first paint the picture; I was converting two ASA's from the old to the new to use in our lab at … Continue reading Enabling Management Port in Firepower Threat Defense
You have been working as a network administrator for your company for a few years now. In that time you have been asked to complete a handful of network projects; a new office turn up here, replace some switches or a router there. The whole time you work from old templates or, in the case … Continue reading How Optimized is your Network?
We have all been there; sitting down to dinner on a Sunday night, when you get an alert that one of your branches has gone offline. You politely excuse yourself from the table, open your laptop and start troubleshooting. The problem, well you can’t access any of the gear to troubleshoot the issue, and the … Continue reading Designing True Out-of-Band Access
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