all about networking
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I would like to show, how to install Scalix on Debian. The system is running the latest version of Debian in a minimal installation. In my last post, about this topic I installed Postfix and Scalix on the same host. This time, I will install Scalix on a host and Postfix for … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post, I would like to show, how to create a new VM with Proxmox by using the web based wizard. Before you can start you should have installed Proxmox on the host and configured the networking respectively. You can find my how to here: How To: Install Proxmox on Debian Wheezy How To: … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes This time, I would like to show how Proxmox networking configuration can be configured. In my last post, I showed, how to install Proxmox and get ready to create VM’s. I will show a typical configuration, which I always use. The official documentation can be found here: Proxmox Network Model I will show, how to configure … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post, I would like to show how to install Proxmox on debian Wheezy. Proxmox is a web-based GUI for KVM. I use this in my LAB for all the software related testing. It is free, but you can also get commercial support. It is one of those great open source tools. Check Requirements … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post I would like to show how I created an IPSec tunnel between my lab and my workstation. I have a static IP only for my lab, but not for the workstation and I was looking for an easy way to interconnect both to do some wireless testing without sitting in the noisy … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post, I will describe how you can configure SNMPv3 on Comware based and provision based switches. SNMP is used by management systems to monitor and configure network devices. As the information which are send and received by the SNMP speaking devices could be sensitive, you should have security in place to protect the … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post, I will show, how to create iMC access templates, to configure the iMC access to devices. I will show, how to create a SNMP template, a telnet template and a SSH template. Those templates are used to define, how iMC should try to access the device and which credentials should be used. … Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutes This post will show, how to configure Tacacs device authentication in iMC TAM, on a Comware device and on a provision based device. If you would like to use Tacacs device authentication together with Active Directory, you can manage this by connecting iMC TAM to Active Directory, using this how to: How To: iMC Tacacs+ … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this post, I will show, how to Backup and Restore the Windows DHCP Server configuration and how to use this method to import the HP Vendor Specific Options for the HP AP’s. The configuration will be backuped as a text file, which can easily be modified to match the configuration of a new server. DHCP … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I will show, how to sync user accounts from Active Directory and use them for iMC Tacacs+ to authenticate on switches or other network related devices. The iMC Tacacs+ server is available as a separate module for iMC. For this post I use the latest available versions for iMC and iMC Tacacs+ which … Read more