
The TACACS+ Lockout That Taught Me Three Things About IOS-XE AAA
How I locked myself out of a Cisco router with TACACS+, why IOS-XE does not fall through on STATUS_FAIL, and the safe AAA chain pattern that fixes it.
Posts tagged: Troubleshooting

How I locked myself out of a Cisco router with TACACS+, why IOS-XE does not fall through on STATUS_FAIL, and the safe AAA chain pattern that fixes it.

Fix Cisco CUIC 'Report Execution Failed' errors — covers year rollover bugs, data source credentials, service restarts, and every common root cause.

Auto-log SecureCRT sessions to file and trigger Python scripts on connect for hands-free network documentation across Cisco DMVPN and routing turn-ups.