Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ? Your employer [...]
Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 2
3rd January 2013 by 4 Comments
Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ? Your employer [...]
Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 1
30th December 2012 by Leave a Comment
Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ?
This three part screencast is about how I manage all the “inputs” so I don’t feel lost in information after many, many people asked.
Service Models – “Pets and Cattle”
27th November 2012 by Leave a Comment
Two types of servers “pets” & “cattle” to denote service levels. Human oriented service models.
Response:Source Code Pro – Monospaced Terminal Font From Adobe
25th September 2012 by 2 Comments
Blog post from Adobe that discusses the background behind the Source Code monospace font and why it’s different. Today, my preferred monospace font for terminal use is Consolas but I’ll be trying this out for a while since it’s free and freely available. Once problem with Consolas is that it doesn’t anti-alias very well. That’s [...]
Top 20 Practical Cabling Tips for Network Engineers – Part One
19th July 2012 by 15 Comments
Most engineers think that cable is simply plug and play. And mostly, that true. In recent years, Ethernet standards and manufacturing Here are 20 things that Network Engineers have forgotten or don’t know about network cabling in a two part series on things I have learned in twenty years of looking after networks.
Size Differences – Cat5 and Cat6 Cable Bundles
14th July 2012 by 5 Comments
I’ve talked bit about the problems of using Category 6 copper cabling in the data centre. The sheer size and weight of the cable is a serious problem. Here are some photos showing the comparison of Category 5 and Category 6 cable bundles.
Basics: What’s the Difference Between STP BPDU Guard and Root Guard
9th July 2012 by 3 Comments
BPDU Guard and Root Guard are enhancements to Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) enhancements that improve the reliability of the protocol to unexpected events ad are primarily to ensure design enforcement ( integrity / security). There they must configured in specific locations in the networks.
Cisco NX-OS CLI Tip – Feature Enabled, License and CLI Syntax
27th June 2012 by 4 Comments
When working on NX-OS it’s kind of annoying to attempt to use a feature that hasn’t been enabled and get an error message. Why not get an “not enabled” or “not licensed” error message ?
Tech Note: Command Line for Alternate PAC File for Chrome
27th June 2012 by 1 Comment
Sometimes you need to use many different Proxy Auto Configuration files with a web browser, usually when testing or trying out new installation of the proxy servers.
