Mr. Bump on Apr 30th, 2008Weight Lifted
Holy cow is life a lot less stressful tonight than it was last night. The Check Point issue I wrote about last night is resolved. Few things make you feel more like you are on an island than not being to modify your firewall policies or view the logs. The issue ended up being a […]
Mr. Bump on Apr 29th, 2008Check Point Admin Rot
My brain is fried. The first two days of this week have been brutal. It started out wonderfully yesterday morning when the SSL certificate for our Check Point SmartCenter console expired over the weekend. I’ve spent a good chunk of both days dealing with that. The management server is an old Windows 2000 Server box […]
Mr. Bump on Apr 25th, 2008Afternoon Delight
Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
gonna grab some afternoon delight.
My motto’s always been; when it’s right, it’s right.
How’s that for the worst intro to a post ever? I did manage to take this afternoon off and partake in a little socialization in the Power and Light district of KC. I hadn’t been down […]
Mr. Bump on Apr 24th, 2008Hurry Up and Wait
It is really quite comical how things work out. Today we had a “mini” disaster recovery test for our mainframe. Like most things, every DR test comes with a couple of meetings prior to the actual work being done. The part I’m involved in is really pretty simple and only involves ensuring a VPN tunnel to the […]
Mr. Bump on Apr 22nd, 2008Where have the last two days gone?
Ever heard the saying “busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest?” My buddies who I normally fire emails back and forth with throughout the day are wondering if I am still alive.
Today we began the “discovery phase” of what is necessary to do on our Citrix farm in order to put […]
Mr. Bump on Apr 20th, 2008Call Off the Dogs
The call for routing experts is no longer needed. Friday night I posed the brain buster from the previous post in a Cisco forum looking for answers. It took all of an hour to have an answer…a rather obvious one at that. The reassuring part is that I was on the right track Thursday night […]
Mr. Bump on Apr 17th, 2008Calling All Routing Experts
I’ve got a real brain buster on my hands. Its a real brain buster for me anyway! We have two routers: a Cisco 1721 and a Cisco 2620. Right now the 1721 is doing policy based routing to route traffic from a certain IP address (1.1.1.2) out a different internet link. If I put the […]
KauffmanBully on Apr 15th, 2008Squeezed
I got squeezed today. I just can’t seem to do anything with “the guys” without managing to get myself into some sort of trouble. I’m a made man.
Today was just one of those days. This morning we were doing network traces trying to figure out why a Windows client could get a DHCP address but […]
Mr. Bump on Apr 14th, 2008“A”
Availability. As in Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. Good ol’ C-I-A of security. I’ve written in the past about the recent addition of a secure FTP server in our environment. Based on the the entire day revolving around meetings and discussions on this dang server I think may have inadvertantly brought production to a screeching halt. […]
Mr. Bump on Apr 10th, 2008When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
I borrowed the title from this article about “Six Keys for Creating an Innovative IT Team.” I thought it was rather catchy.
Yesterday afternoon while troubleshooting that VoIP/RTCP issue I came across a log entry in one of our LANenforcer 2024s that caught my eye. It was a DoS incident by a user in our department. […]