Just a short post about my recent Cisco exam, I was able to pass the 300-115 to renew all my lower CCNA certifications. The last time I took a Cisco exam was almost 3 years ago when I passed the CCNA Data Center certification. Overall the exam was fair although you will need multiple study resources to make sure you …

So a single ISP isn't cutting it anymore you need a backup just in case the primary fails and might as well add a second ASA into this design, more redundancy equals more up-time, right? On paper it sounds good but in the "real" world there probably is tipping point, more redundancy increases complexity. In …

Let's continue to talk about the Cisco Firepower Management Center, in this post we are going to look at sending connection events over to syslog. In this example I'm using Graylog which is an open source logging platform and although any syslog server would work, one of the problems with syslogs is there is little …

It's the "S" word we don't like to hear, and often times it has degraded networks or even took them down entirely. (All Systems Down - an older but classic story) It's also one of those things that nobody really likes, we even had network companies, as well as IEEE try to replace it with something else. …

Working on my Powershell skills, I was playing around with a Barracuda Load Balancer and noticed it supported some APIs which is kind of cool. At first I was playing around with it in postman and got to login and put some servers in maintenance mode, but then thought it would be really neat if I could get this working …