New NZ Video

This is some nice Marketing for NZ I just stumbled upon. There's more here: http://www.youtube.com/user/PureNewZealand

Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager

Another one of the sessions today had more info and examples related to Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM). There's a forum where people share scripts which could come in handy here. Wasn't happy to learn that EEM isn't supported on the Catalyst 3750 yet. Will have to look into that in more detail...bit of a bugger as it would be useful.

There's a whitepaper on the Catalyst 6500 and EEM here.

Cisco Compliance

Day 2 of Networkers, and I tried a few different tracks today. The first of which was about PCI/DSS Compliance. The most interesting thing that I hadn't seen before was CiscoWorks Network Compliance Manager. The report outputs look very handy for Security Managers. Its an OEM'd product apparently - no idea of the price but expect it'll be pricey.

There's a free eval download here.

Another related link: http://www.cisco.com/go/compliance

Cisco Networkers & IOS TCL

I'm at Cisco Networkers at the moment in Brisbane (Day 1 of 3). Went to some pretty good sessions today, the keynote was very interesting (Howard Charney, Cisco SVP) with lots of crazy facts about the amazing spread of the Internet & technology. Went to quite a good session in 802.1x - with plenty of gotchas and things to look out for, so the slides from that will come in handy.

The session that I learnt the most at was on getting the right events out of NMS, by Benoit Claise from Belgium. He's written a book on this stuff and had some great examples on how to use things like the Embedded Event Manager, RMON and TCL scripts to get some pretty powerful monitoring from the devices themselves. Kind of on a similar line to the TCLsh stuff I came across last week, for scripting things in the CLI - this is a good blog for examples Cisco IOS hints and tricks: IOS Tclsh resources.