Author: CyberSecFaith

Cisco Prime: Installation of Cisco Prime v2.0 – Adding a Licence

Go to Product Licence Registration portal in Cisco.con Add the PAK file that you received from Cisco Once added, your PAK files will appear here To get the licence file, click on the PAK that you need and click on get licence. You are required to fill in Product ID and Serial number details. These … Continue reading Cisco Prime: Installation of Cisco Prime v2.0 – Adding a Licence →

CCNA Wireless Summary Notes: Wireless Security Fundamentals – Part 1

For confidentiality purposes, wireless clients should be authenticated before they are allowed to associate with an AP. It is also best that the AP authenticate to the client before sending traffic so as to minimize attacks from illegitimate APs. The data payload should also be encrypted before sending and decrypted after receiving so as to … Continue reading CCNA Wireless Summary Notes: Wireless Security Fundamentals – Part 1 →

Cisco Prime: Installation of Cisco Prime v2.0 – Standalone

Login as setup to start the installation. Provide the necessary details  After rebooting (it rebooted twice) plus it took a long time stuck here. I think 10 minutes have passed now. Will keep count of how much more time it takes at this point. Gosh, it took another 12 minutes. I think it took around … Continue reading Cisco Prime: Installation of Cisco Prime v2.0 – Standalone →

Cisco Prime: Configuring HA

The SMTP server settings should already be configured. Login to the primary server with your credentials Fill in the details for the secondary server The failover mode can be manual or automatic. Manual requires you to do the failover, for automatic, the secondary server. Status changes to initializing From the secondary server, this is the … Continue reading Cisco Prime: Configuring HA →

Cisco Prime: Installation of Cisco Prime v2.0 – Secondary Server

We will be dealing with the express installation file. The Express option replaces the Medium and Small options supplied in previous versions of Prime Infrastructure. Here are the scaling limits for express installation Installation process. To begin we need to login as setup. Fill in network parameters Wait for installation Specify that the server will act as … Continue reading Cisco Prime: Installation of Cisco Prime v2.0 – Secondary Server →

CCNA Wireless Summary Notes: Implementing a Wireless Guest Network

Guest Access should be isolated from corporate access. Steps involved: Create dynamic interface for the guest. Create guest WLAN Bind WLAN to dynamic interface Configure security parameters Anchors can be used to handle guest traffic on behalf of the other controllers by building a tunnel to the controller. Configuring Mobility Anchors: Create identical guest WLANs … Continue reading CCNA Wireless Summary Notes: Implementing a Wireless Guest Network →

CCDP ARCH Summary Notes 1

Covered Topics: Topic 1 - Cisco SONA Topic 2 - Cisco Enterprise Architecture Hiererchial Architecture Core - High end switching. Backbone of the network.Uses CEF and very little policy. Able to adopt to changes quickly. Optimizes transport of communication. Multilayer switching. Distribution - policy based connectivity. This is agregated in wiring closets. For the WAN, its … Continue reading CCDP ARCH Summary Notes 1 →

CCNA Wireless Summary Notes: Configuring a WLAN

WLAN connects the wired network (VLAN) to the wireless network (SSID). Different WLANs cannot communicate unless the traffic is routed in the wired network. WLAN Limitations: WLC supports a max of 512 WLANs. Only 16 can be actively configured on an AP. Advertising each WLAN uses up valuable airtime. Each WLAN requires beacons to advertise … Continue reading CCNA Wireless Summary Notes: Configuring a WLAN →

CCNA Wireless Summary Notes: Understanding Wireless Client

Overview of common clients Windows 7 and 8 Intel PROSet - It can be installed if you are using Intel Wireless adapter. Its preferable when dealing with lightweight extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP), EAP Flexible Authentication by Secure Tunneling (EAP-FAST), or Cisco Compatible Extensions (CCX) because these are not supported by Windows. Android Apple OS X Cisco … Continue reading CCNA Wireless Summary Notes: Understanding Wireless Client →