In this part (Part 3) I utilize SNMP v2 as a way of getting some visibility of what’s happening to device resources in the network. I will be using the application called Observium which is free to use for lab or learning purposes. The video shows how to set up the Palo Alto and Cisco…

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Configuration Challenges Intergrating the Palo Alto Firewall with Active Directory can be challenging. Sucessfully configuring the Firewall to connect with the Windows 2016 Server and getting the right credentials on the server can be troublesome. I hope this record of the configurations make it easier. Youtube video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7kGNSV6CuU Palo Alto Management access Device >…

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Below are the commands used to install Nagios infrastructure monitoring sofware on Ubuntu. Install Nagios prerequisites# sudo apt install build-essential wget unzip perl postfix# sudo apt install apache2 php php-gd openssl libapache2-mod-php libgd-dev openssl libssl-dev# apt install gcc # mkdir nagiosinstall# cd nagiosinstall Install Nagios files# wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/nagios-4.x/nagios-4.4.6/nagios-4.4.6.tar.gz# wget https://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.3.3.tar.gz Add users# sudo useradd nagios#…

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As part of my journey to gain the CCNP ENCOR I was having some difficulty in finding a good multicast example. So I created my own and shared them for learning purposes. The videos below will help you to create a multicast lab to gain a deeper understand and practical understanding of a multicast configuration.…

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