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Reading Time: 5 minutes This post is about the IRF MAD detection methods, used with in HPN Comware based switches. The purpose of IRF MAD is to prevent the split-brain scenario. If a split-brain occur, an IRF stack is broken, because of an link failure of one or more IRF links, or one or more IRF member switches experience … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the last days we get a new software version for the MSM controller and the HP Unified Solution and a new AP, the HP 525 dual-radio 802.11ac AP. MSM Version 6.5 The released MSM version 6.5 brings support for the HP 560 802.11ac AP and the autonomous mode for this AP. Now, you can … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I will share how to do a bulk modification of guest accounts in iMC UAM. This is currently not possible from the web GUI. You have to work on the DB instead. I figured it out by reverse engineering and testing. With the new iMC UAM version 7.1 it is possible to … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this article I will show how to configure the transmit power for unified AP’s via the CLI, the web GUI on the controller and from iMC WSM. I decided to write this article because it is not that intuitive to configure the transmit power for unified AP’s, but this article will make it clear. … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute This blog is really growing fast. Yesterday, we reached more than 5000 visits, which is really a great number. It took us only 5 month to get from zero to 5000. Thanks for the support. Many thanks, Florian
Reading Time: 4 minutes This post will describe, how to use a reverse ssh tunnel to backup an external device, like a server to your Synology DS via rsync. I have to use the reverse SSH tunnel function, as my DS is behind my firewall at home and my server (which should use the DS for backup) is in … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes This post will describe how to enable SSH and rsync on a Synology DS. This will allow you to use your DS as a backup server. For this post, I use the Synology DS412+ with the latest version of DSM 5.1-5004. Enable SSH and Rsync Before I start, I would like to explain the environment, in … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I will explain the new UAM page push policy in iMC, which was introduced with the update to iMC 7.1. The UAM page push policy will make it easier to select the webpage which should be used for the authentication. The UAM page push policy will replace the portal selection in the … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this post I will explain the MSM TFTP mode. This mode is used to upload a startup image to a MSM AP to get them working again or to convert them back from Unified Code without the help of a MSM controller. The startup images are not available publicly. You should open a case … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday, we reached a new record for clicks per day. With the help of you all, I got more than 100 clicks. This is outstanding and means a lot for me. From those great figures, I can see, that the stuff I post is really appreciated and helpful. Currently, I have a lot of ideas … Read more