If you have read this blog before you will notice that I have lots of stuff going on some good and some meh!, from Collaboration, Security, Enterprise Networks and some other stuff non-related to Cisco, which I recommend you checking out in case you are interested. Initially, I started sharing my Journey to the CCIE Collaboration back in 2014. I completed my adventure last year (2016), and I’m very happy to say that I fully enjoyed the ride. Now I would like to focus most of my posts on Security and on my ride on completing my CCNP Security following it up with the CCIE Security by the beginning of next year (hope it works). UC and Collaboration will still be playing a HUGE roll into my writing as I find it very fun! and I still have LOTS of pending posts and Videos
In case you are hit with this bug the solution is very simple, but asks the question, is it really necessary creating the UserID in AD with a combination of UPPER CASE and lower case?
Here is the Scenario CUCM implementation of 11.5(1) with AD/LDAP authentication, once users are synced with LDAP you proceed to assign Power Users under End User Administration. All is fine but such users have their user ID as follows: AD UserID: WUser
I have always tried to use something like this in the past, but with no luck, by digging a bit deeper into it I found how to import hosts into SecureCRT.
This is the Link that goes over the process of importing data and what is relevant for the import:
https://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/importsessions.html
For Python or VBS here are the scripts:
https://forums.vandyke.com/showthread.php?p=37089#post37089
Here a quick sample of the data and how needs to go, I used the Python script, I decided not to use the .csv format, instead, I used .txt to save my data
Being clear from the beginning of the post here are some disclaimers I have:
I’m not an expert, I just like messing around with stuff that saves me time
The automation piece is a simple script in Python that is created from SecureCRT automatically
Now, as I document my projects, I have to find a way to provide my clients with meaningful information on what was what I did in their environment. I know engineers out there that hate documentation… me too, but when I do Documentation I just think like my client will think
Looking to get a better picture of the Security Portfolio from Cisco I thought it will be a good idea to have a document handy. I know that this list may be obsolete at some point but will help illustrate what I’m trying to achieve today :)
It is a reality that Security is right now the main focus of any company out there, if not and you are asking yourself why? then you should be worried.
My Cisco live experience was focused on 80% Security and 20% Collaboration. One of the sessions I assisted last week was the one related to StealthWatch and Security Monitoring, an interesting new topic for me and one that opens my brain for more questions.
The Security portfolio from Cisco is still huge for me, but I remember saying that when I was starting on my CCIE Collaboration journey a few years back. Remember the Before During and After Attack continuum from Cisco? - Yes, I remember and made my mission to know how all the pieces fit together.
This is going to be my Feedback on the Breakout sessions, as expected Cisco was ready for the challenge and the questions.
I really don’t know if CLUS had the ability for you to join a Spark room simultaneously to the session, at least not in my previous CLUS over in 2014, when I guess it was called Project Squared. My experience was really good with this new feature and helped very much to be engaged in the conversation.
I’m making contact back from Cisco Live with many interesting things to show and tell, so I decided I would write small pieces of the information I digested from the conference.
I will start it off by mentioning where to locate the presentation that was used for this session, to follow along with all the things that I will be covering. Eventually all videos on the session will be uploaded to the ciscolive.com on Demand Library
This posts looks more to analyze few design questions and good information on how to complete a successful DMVPN implementation, other than a focus on the configuration. And last but not least, to start a conversation and hear more about what would you do in cases like this (There are many ways to skin a cat!!)
A short background on what got me to this: I have been most of my Professional career focused on UC and Collaboration technologies until not too long ago that I decided that I wanted to get involved with Security and Networks again. At this point my focus is to be able to maintain a good deal of knowledge on the technologies that cover all Cisco Security suite, but UC is still a great part on what I do daily at my current position.
I keep hearing about many engineers out there with issues related to the UCCX certificates and the ECDSA certificate used by few services on UCCX. I wanted to create this quick post to help others and Document the procedure.
The certificates Overview I will go back a bit to give you a quick overview on the UCCX certificates, but not too far back. UCCX uses Self-Signed certificates out of the box for Secure connectivity using your browser (Nothing new here) - However, since UCCX 11.5 there is a new Tomcat Certificate called Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm, ECDSA for short. If you want to find out more about these type of certificates feel free to visit (https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5767)
