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OpManager - Network Monitoring & Management

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OpManager - Network Monitoring & Management

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Defending your client's network from faulty configuration changes, poor compliance, and bringing the network back quickly from downtime can be challenging. It requires a lot of effort and time, a fai…

Network Cabling

CAT5, CAT5e, CAT6 UTP X-Over / Cross-over Cable

The cross-over (or crossover) CAT5 UTP cable has to be one of the most used cables after the classic straight-thru cable. The cross-over cable allows us to connect two computers without needing a hub…

Cisco Data Center (Nexus/UCS)

Complete Guide to Nexus Checkpoint & Rollback Fea…

The Cisco NX-OS checkpoint feature provides the capability to capture at any time a snapshot (backup) of the Cisco Nexus configuration before making any changes. The captured configura…

VLAN Networks

VTP Protocol - In-Depth Analysis

The previous article introduced the VTP protocol, we examined how it can be used within a network, to help manage VLANs and ease the administrative overhead, providing a stress-free VLAN environment…

Windows Workstations (XP, 7, 8, 10, 11)

Installing The ‘Unsupported’ Profilic USB-to-Seri…

Thanks to the absence of dedicated serial ports on today’s laptops and ultrabooks, USB-to-Serial adapters are very popular amongst Cisco engineers as they are used to perform the initial configuratio…

Routing

Distance Vector Routing Protocols

Distance Vector routing protocols use frequent broadcasts (255.255.255.255 or FF:FF:FF:FF) of their entire routing table every 30 sec. on all their interfaces in order to communicate with their neigh…

TCP - UDP Protocol Analysis

TCP Header Anaylsis - Section 3: TCP Header Lengt…

The third field under close examination is the TCP Header length. There really isn't that much to say about the Header length other than to explain what it represents and how to interpret its values…

Windows Servers

Windows Server 2016 – Hyper-V Virtualization Upda…

The new Hyper-V virtualization features offered by Windows Server 2016 are planning to make major changes in the virtualization market. From Nested Hyper-V, revolutionary security, new management opt…

Cisco Switches

Cisco 4507R+E Layer 3 Installation: Redundant WS-…

It's no news that we here at Firewall.cx enjoy writing about our installations of Cisco equipment and especially devices that we don’t get to see and play with every day. Today we cover the installat…

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With digital transformation revolutionizing the IT industry, Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) has become one of the hottest topics in the IT operations management (ITOM) space. At t…

Palo Alto Networks

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Discover the ins and outs of using Palo Alto Networks’ Software NGFW (Flex) credits to seamlessly renew your cloud-based or virtualized software NGFW devices! Dive into this exciting guide where we u…