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Thanks to Cisco’s push to deploy more Thousand Eyes agents, the Catalyst team has given us an easy button for deploying agents to the Catalyst 9300 and 9400 switches using Catalyst Center, formally DNA Center. The agent is deployed as a docker container using the App-hosing framework built natively into the 9300 and 9400 series platforms. Catalyst Center streamlines the deployment of the...

My latest project has been a switch refresh and a deployment of a Catalyst Center with Assurance only for a customer across all of their sites. Now the task I had at hand was how can I use Catalyst Center to automate as much configuration on the switches as possible. Because we were only licensed for Assurance we did not have access to use any of the SD-Access fabric automation that Catalyst...

Today we will be a looking at a debug tool inside LogicMonitor, that I use pretty frequently and has saved me time when troubleshooting alerts on my devices. At a high level, LogicMonitor is an onboarding platform that allows Managed Service Providers the ability to monitor and gain full visibility of their customer’s environments. Let’s take a look at this handy tool!

What is Zero Trust? Zero Trust is a framework and attitude towards IT security that centers on the idea that we in the IT field cannot trust anyone or any device on our network. Many systems administrators are well versed in this model. Every employee is assigned a domain joined laptop that is locked down via Group Policy. Those employees are tracked via a user identity using their AD profile...