McAfee Firewall Enterprise Secure Computing Sidewinder 8.3.2 NCM Template
I've built a working template for downloading Sidewinder Firewall configurations with NCM, and been happy (so far) with the results showing in NCM's Daily Configuration Comparison Reports. There are...
View ArticleEditing Policies under Complaince
I am reviewing the Cisco Audits, and found that it is failing under logging. When I click on the i I notice the command it is searching for is logging 10.10.10.1. Well all our routers/switches are...
View ArticleCisco STIGs
This page was developed to track all the current DISA STIGs for Cisco Devices. All new revisions of the content within will be noted here. Node Selection on a Custom Property of: Device_Type...
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How might one adjust NCM Configuration Change Report for A Cisco ASA that has...
When we add or remove a Network Object from a Cisco ASA, the NCM Daily Config Change Report grows very long. This is apparently due to the ASA removing or inserting that Network Object, and NCM seeing...
View ArticleDo you need Network Automation?
I would like to find out details on use cases for network automation, especially in the context of configuration and change management. Please vote and ideally, leave a comment.
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Use NCM to push breaking changes?
So, I'm not sure what the best way to proceed here is, maybe you can help. We want to re-IP/re-VLAN some switches that are out there. We're cleaning up our network design and there is a VLAN with some...
View ArticleHow do you SSH to your devices?
When SSHing to devices, do you prefer Credentials-based authentication or Certificate-based authentication?
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Are you compliant?
Does your network needs to be compliant with any of the official standards, internal standards only, or none?
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IP Address Tracker
I downloaded the free version of IP Address tracker last night and it was close to 700MB. It installed IIS and SQL Server 2008 R2 Express and whole bunch of other stuff. Is the old IP Address tracker...
View ArticleNCM timing out on Cisco file transfer
Hello, I'm attempting to get NCM to copy firmware images to Cisco switches, but it is timing out during the copy. The template is attached, and the trace is attached (initial SCP command removed for...
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Login Banner Compliance Report
Has anyone figured out how to check for a multi-line login/motd banner using a compliance report? I'm willing to attempt re-writing our banners if I can find a solid way to check that they are the same...
View ArticleMarking devices which dont have EOS announced yet
Is there a recommended practice for marking devices which don't have and EOS date announced yet? I could ignore the devices, but with a device like the 6500-E chassis it could have a EOS announced soon.
View ArticleNCM v7.4.0 Hot Fix 3 is Now Available
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 7.4 Hotfix 3http://downloads.solarwinds.com/solarwinds/Release/HotFix/NCM-v7.4.0-HotFix3.zip Hotfix 3 addresses the following:New device template for...
View ArticleNCM v7.4.0 Hot Fix 2 Is Now Available
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 7.4 Hotfix 2http://downloads.solarwinds.com/solarwinds/Release/HotFix/NCM-v7.4.0-HotFix2.zip Hotfix 2 addresses the following:New device template for...
View ArticleStart 2016 by racking up 1000 thwack points
If you use NCM together with NPM (which is probably most of you in this forum) then why not score an easy 1000 thwack points just for taking 45 minutes to talk with me about how you use these two...
View ArticleFirmware Vulnerability data files URLs don't function, new ones I think...
Was noticing that no new recent vulnerabilities are showing up in NCM, so I went to check things out. In my Firmware Vulnerability Settings page, I'm getting the following errors - URL...
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