In my homelab setup I am dumping syslog on all my devices to my Linux desktop. Have not figure out what I am going to do with it yet, but I see myself either setting up Splunk or Greylog in the near future. Note, a while back I wrote a post on how to configure rsyslog on RHEL 6 - s0 if you are interested you can find that post here.
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HomeLab: Upgrading Cisco IOS Via tftp on RHEL
0012fbf7_mediumSo I was planning on blogging about this process simply because I keep forgetting it. Being that I am in the middle of building out my lab, and have a ton of old cisco hardware with ancient images, I have found myself going through the process of updating firmware quite a bit as I tinker with different IOS images.
HomeLab: Cisco 2621 Router Password Recovery/Factory Reset
How to guide: Cisco 2621 Router Password Recovery/Factory Reset
HomeLab: The Cisco 3560G
The Cisco Catalyst 3506G is a layer 3 switch which went end-of-life in 2009. For the home lab its a pretty nice switch to have due to its layer 3 support and gigabit speed. Mine is the model seen to the left, 24 gigabit ports and 4x1gb SFP uplinks. The Cisco Catalyst 3560 is … Continue reading HomeLab: The Cisco 3560G
How to Reset Cisco Catalyst 2960 Back to Factory Defaults
This is my first post in what I hope to be a long line of Cisco networking related posts, as I have just gotten my hands on a bit of used Cisco equipment and hope to use it to setup a home lab. First step of setting up this home lab is to get my two Catalyst 2960s reset to factory defaults. So here is how you do it. Note that I am assuming that you have already established a console connection to the switch.
Cisco UCS Failover Via 6248 CLI
Need to fail over Cisco UCS Manager from one 6248 to another. Oh did I mention that you are in a hurry because you are going to have to sift through pages and pages of pdfs to get the information. I found this out the hard way. Anyway, out of the kindness of my heart I have documented this process below.
Cisco UCS Visio Stencils
Cisco UCS Visio Stencils -- Use the link below and scroll down to "Unified Computing and Servers", and select "Unified Computing System" and download the zip file. Currently (as of 12/2014) you can cut to the chase and use the direct link below: