Zabbix: Monitoring a Cisco ASA Firewall

I recently started to trial Zabbix 3.4 as a network monitoring solution, so far I really like it. Monitoring my Cisco LAN worked out the box using the built-in template “Template Net Cisco IOS SNMPv2”, however, this template would not …

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Cisco IOS – Finding unused interfaces

Have you ever looked at a comms cabinet run of Cisco switches only to find that ever interface is patched, some of them have no link lights and you don’t know which ones can be unpatched. The below steps are …

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How to break into a Cisco device

The below details how to recover a Cisco device such as a switch or router if you have forgotten or don’t have the password. You will need physical access to the console port WARNING: By doing this you may loose …

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