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RadiUID: Palo Alto User-ID and RADIUS

The Palo Alto User-ID feature is awesome as long as you can feed it IP-to-User mappings. PAN provides agents to do this which work in many environments, but not usually without Active Directory. I wrote RadiUID to perform this function is situations where all you have is RADIUS. Approx Reading Time: 5-15 Minutes You see, […]

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RadiUID: Palo Alto User-ID and RADIUS

The Palo Alto User-ID feature is awesome as long as you can feed it IP-to-User mappings. PAN provides agents to do this which work in many environments, but not usually without Active Directory. I wrote RadiUID to perform this function in situations where all you have is RADIUS. Approx Reading Time: 5-15 Minutes You see, […]

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Survey: Should The Packet Pushers Host A Conference?

Deep inside the virtual ideas lab at Packet Pushers, we’ve been debating the merits of organizing a two-day Packet Pushers conference. We love live events because there’s no better way to strengthen a community and share ideas. And because at a live event there’s no fast-forward button–we can lock the conference doors so that you […]

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Survey: Should The Packet Pushers Host A Conference?

Deep inside the virtual ideas lab at Packet Pushers, we’ve been debating the merits of organizing a two-day Packet Pushers conference. We love live events because there’s no better way to strengthen a community and share ideas. And because at a live event there’s no fast-forward button–we can lock the conference doors so that you […]

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Monitoring CPU on firewalls

There is a trend in network monitoring toward Push Model (versus Pull Model) where network devices send metrics to a collector in a ‘netflow’ like fashion (read blog post of Matt Oswalt). It is up to the collector to interpret that data; no need to standardize what is being sent. The only agreement is on data format […]

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Monitoring CPU On firewalls

There is a trend in network monitoring toward Push Model (versus Pull Model) where network devices send metrics to a collector in a ‘netflow’ like fashion (read blog post of Matt Oswalt). It is up to the collector to interpret that data; no need to standardize what is being sent. The only agreement is on data format […]

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Community is Key

So in case anyone didn’t know, I got to speak at Interop Las Vegas 2016 last week. It was an amazing experience, and I think it changed my professional outlook on a lot of things.  I had never attended a large conference like this before, and it was slightly daunting in that respect, to say […]

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Community is Key

So in case anyone didn’t know, I got to speak at Interop Las Vegas 2016 last week. It was an amazing experience, and I think it changed my professional outlook on a lot of things.  I had never attended a large conference like this before, and it was slightly daunting in that respect, to say […]

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Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 2

This is the second and final part of the Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 1 article. Here we will cover: Relative Humidity Calculating Cooling Capacity Converting Between Units For handy references and info, download my Power & Cooling Cheat Sheet to the right   Approx Reading Time: 10-15 Minutes Relative Humidity The datacenter may seem […]

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Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 2

This is the second and final part of the Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 1 article. Here we will cover: Relative Humidity Calculating Cooling Capacity Converting Between Units For handy references and info, download my Power & Cooling Cheat Sheet to the right   Approx Reading Time: 10-15 Minutes Relative Humidity The datacenter may seem […]

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