I am managing a mixture of ASA and FWSM Firewalls.I there a cisco tool that can sanity check the rule base ... in terms of identifying redundant or shadowed rules etc., and other sub optimal configuration issues within the rule base?I have a lot of r...

We have 6509 hybrid switches/MSFC's running in our core with HSRP vlan interfaces. Occasionally we get an HP Open view alert to say that a switch is experiencing HSRP state changes. Cisco.com is not massively forthcoming on potential causation. Whils...

Folks, if I can leverage your headspace for a moment... We have Tacacs security authentication to our switches and routers. It is configured to request a user name, and then a password. The password is a dynamic numeric combination of 2 separate numb...

Ok we have just bought Kiwi Cat tools - for those of you who do not know this product (http://www.kiwisyslog.com/cattools2.htm) it is good config collector. Now here's the problem - you can program it to whiz round all your Cisco switches and routers...

We have couple of trunked 6509s. I am trying to remote span (RSPAN) a port from one to the other. To no avail. The RSPAN vlan is 40. I can see that from the source switch if I "show vlan counters 40" that there are rapidly incrementing counters (sour...