syslog server...

one of the things this ccnp tshoot net acad lab manual is making me do, or rather, i'm finally making myself do, is some sorely needed maintenance...  gotta stop being a fly by the seat of the pants guy on my home network, and treat it like the production network it is here...

i bumped into this cool syslog server for my win 7 box...

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Syslog-Server.shtml

it was a painless download...i've used kiwi often throughout my career, but it's kind of a pain in the ass now that solar winds owns it...

i like this graphically with the color coding and severity level context click on feature... nice and simple...

another thing i've been meaning to do is some backing up, bin's and others, before i end up with a disaster on my hands...

the folks who blast through tshoot are making a mistake... yeah, yeah, you're so close, everybody says it's the easiest one, blah, blah... don't be that fool...  as always the net acad lab manuals for ccnp are best in show... if you are not using them for each step through ccnp, you are not getting it cisco's way, bottom line... front load the pain; it will make the ccie lab less than insurmountable... that is the point, isn't it? and there is no excuse with tshoot because of this:

http://mars.tekkom.dk/cisco/ccnpTshoot/configs/

damn i'm glad i found these... and the tshoot lab book is only 35 bucks... priceless...

syslog and snmp...

last week i linked you to narbik's 2007 soup to nuts... for those of you who didn't immediately download it, put yourselves in network oblivion and go to bed without any bpdu's...

here it is again, lame one's...

http://insearchofthecert.blogspot.com/2012/03/old-school-tasty-treat.html

there is a bunch of stuff in there about configuring snmp traps...  here is the thing, and the gns3 guys can probably do this too, download something like kiwi's syslog server (it's free), slap it on a pc in your network that your lan devices can get to, turn on snmp on the lan devices and you can practice network management along with narbik's soup to nuts...

this is good stuff:

mls_1(config)#snmp-server host 10.1.1.100 public config tty ospf
mls_1(config)#snmp-server enable traps config
mls_1(config)#snmp-server enable traps ospf

traps are enabled by default for tty; note how you enable the pc's ip address and community string, and the individual traps for config changes and ospf events...

make sure you decide which items you want to trap or by default it will send everything; don't do that...

i'd like to hear some comments from those with gear, and the gns3 heads out there who make this happen...