Picture this, you have been given a provisional WAN circuit using a T1, or multiple, in this particular use case; The provider is connecting you to its MPLS network, which provides you with an MPLS WAN address, an Internet WAN address.
This is simple for many out there, but it was not for me until not too long ago. I realize that in all of my turn ups I have been given an ethernet Hand off, and from there is just making a “Routing on a Stick” configuration and I will be calling it a day.
Have you ever had the need to have a quick DNS server at hand? - This is very useful when configuring UCCX 9.x and above in a lab environment with no DNS Server.
At this point I’m not really sure if this DNS configuration will support more advanced configurations, like SRV records or anything of that nature, but I guess is a good start to begin testing it and see if there is more to it.
I’m sure that by now there is lots of people already working and playing on the Cisco APIC-EM. I finally had the opportunity this week to attend to a Cisco APIC-EM hands on lab. Let me begin by telling you that I was very impressed with the quality and the functionality of the software.
The general idea from APIC-EM is to provide provisioning, inventory and networking path tracing among others… I think this description is short and loose from what the application itself can accomplish.
