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Hey all, I have been pushing scripts to switches in the network and on a handful I get "Connection Refused by X.X.X.X" Connection has been tested with SNMP, which works, SSH and CLI test also works. The switch has taken the correct configuration from Solarwinds as well. Switch does not prompt any logging issue or a denied…
1. An option to search configs for text that is not contained in the config downloads. I know my overall goal can be done with the compliance option, but this would be useful to do in the "search NCM" dash as well. 2. The ability in "search NCM" to select nodes after a search and pivot those nodes over to config…
Last week I was in San Francisco speaking at Cisco Live! (used to be called Cisco Networkers) and it an awesome event. First off, it was only about 70 degrees there which was 35-40 degrees cooler than here in Austin and that in of itself was worth the trip. Cisco also got smart and changed the hours so that the we could…
If you've been working to improve network availability (MTBF and MTTR) then you know how difficult it can be. While an annual up-time of 99.9% is stellar, it nevertheless equals nearly nine hours of network downtime. And with downtime costs ranging from $100K to $300K per hour this represents $900 thousand to $2.7 million…
I work for a company that has many remote sites that are all nearly identical in their network configuration. Basically the IP addresses in use at each site are different but the rest of the configurations should be identical across sites. I'd like to be able to create a "master config template" and schedule a nightly…
A recent survey commissioned by Avaya reveals that network vulnerabilities are causing more business impacts than most realize, resulting in revenue and job loss. * 80% percent of companies lose revenue when the network goes down; on average, companies lost $140,000 USD as a result of network outages * 1 in 5 companies…
In my last blog, I wrote about what network management is and why it is such a large field. It does require a wide range of functions and in order to understand these functions better, people group them into categories, knows as FCAPS. FCAPS is an ISO model and stands for the Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance…
It’s astonishing to hear that some network configs aren’t regularly backed up. One assumes that the reason engineers don’t do this is for one of the following reasons: * They think a configuration error is unlikely to cause any network issues * They have other things on their minds * They think that Network Change and…
Been playing quite a bit with Policy Compliance and remediation scripts and one thing I've noticed is that after the script is run on a node, RTCD is very slow at processing the nodes for updating. The last lines in my remediation script are "write mem", so I can see it triggering RTCD in the Trap Viewer on the server. I…
I got all my nodes added to NCM just fine, setup credentials and global settings and did a manual config download to test, everything looks good. sow I am trying to configure automatic jobs and no matter which one I try to setup the wizard wont go past the 'Enter a name for this Job' section. I type in something like…
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