I saw a commencement speech video on doing small tasks. The speaker talking about doing your bed in the morning. That completed task will give confidence to the next one. And the next one. At the end of the day,…
LMS Network View stuck on hourglass
In Cisco web site, it is called Network Topology View whereas, in the LMS Topology Services Main Window, it is called Network View. After launching the Topologies Service Java plugin, if the hourglass icon does not go away within a…
Microsoft Windows password policy
As part of security policy, the Windows password policy ensures the user’s password is sufficiently complex and fresh. Windows by default do not detect the difference between old and new password. It even accepts a password with one character different…
Cisco IOS scheduled tasks
I was wondering how to keep a “reload in” command to act as a fail-safe when working with remote equipment. There can be only a single reload Someone recommended using scheduled tasks or Embedded Event Manager (EEM), In the EEM,…
Cisco LMS and SSH
In the Cisco LAN Management Solution or LMS, the Topology Services has a nifty feature. Right mouse click on a device, you can choose to Telnet or SSH to the device. This module based on the Java plugin is not…
KPI
Key Performance Index (or KPI) for performance appraisal. It is the season for appraisal and potentially affecting your bonus. I said potentially as there is anecdotal evidence that those two are inversely proportional to each other. After a sad episode…
24 hours
There was a Thursday in April 2016, that my 24 hours went like this.
Managing Group Policy is never easier
In Windows 2012 R2, t o add in new Group Policy templates, just down the admx/adml files. Copy them to the %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions folder. Admx files goes into the main, adml goes into the sub folder “en-us”. If you have GPedit.msc opened,…
Managing security compliance
I needed to harden a couple of standalone servers in a jiffy. I remembered there some tools for this and the Security Compliance Manager to the rescue! Make a copy of the baseline Tweak Save as a GPO. Push…
Hash and large files
You need to send off several large files. These may be the parts of a very a large zip file or multiple individual files. The receiver tried to open or merge the files together and get a bad data error message. How…