Weekly Update: Network switch, Route tracking, DHCP and more

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Thursday, August 06, 2009 http://toolbox.com

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Research: How should an enterprise move toward Unified...
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Research: Choosing a Network Switch
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/19902/0/Highlight/?mid=

Cisco-infrastructure-l discussion: Policy based Routing with Route Tracking Option
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2916101/1/Highlight

Blog Post: Are We The Weakest Link to Data Security?
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33104/3/Highlight

Blog Post: The LAN party.
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33280/3/Highlight

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**** RESEARCH ****
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ACHIEVING GREEN IT: ESKER AUTOMATION WITH LEGACY SAP SYSTEM ELIMINATES PAPER INVOICING
By Esker
In an initiative to reduce their company's carbon footprint, ALCAN started at the back office by replacing its outdated...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/19421/0/Docs/?mid=

IBM SYSTEM STORAGE DS-RELIABLE DATA STORAGE FOR THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY
By IBM
Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step an electronics business can take toward meeting the needs of...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/19134/0/Docs/?mid=

AN IMPROVED ARCHITECTURE FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY, HIGH-DENSITY DATA CENTERS
By APC
Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year of...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/5752/0/Docs/?mid=

HOW SHOULD AN ENTERPRISE MOVE TOWARD UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS?
By Avaya
Unified Communications is orchestrated communication and collaboration across locations, time, and medium to accelerate...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/20048/0/Docs/?mid=

CHOOSING A NETWORK SWITCH (Download)
By Insight
When choosing LAN switches for your network there are a number of considerations - applications, security, business and...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/19902/0/Docs/?mid=

USING SYMARK POWERBROKER™ TO ENRICH YOUR ORGANIZATION'S RBAC MODEL
By Symark Software
The essential notion of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for IT security administration is establishing permissions...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/19009/0/Docs/?mid=

OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF IBM SYSTEM X AND BLADECENTER SERVERS USING INTEL(R) XEON(R) 5500 SERIES PROCESSORS
By IBM
Optimizing new IBM servers with Intel(R) Xeon(R) 5500 processors. The latest servers from IBM have one thing in common...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/19747/0/Docs/?mid=

PDUS: POWER MONITORING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING TO IMPROVE UPTIME AND CAPACITY PLANNING
By Raritan
The rapid growth of powerful servers has pushed power and cooling systems to their limits. How can the power and...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/3/19355/0/Docs/?mid=

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Recent Threads

ENABLE SECRET (Cisco-infrastructure-l)
Asked By Salim (Project Manager) | Replies (11)
I have a router that has privilege level password I used "enable secret level 15 0 xxxxxx" and...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2913905/1/groups

COPY AIX PRINT QUEUES FROM ONE SERVER TO ANOTHER (Ibm-rs6000-l)
Asked By mlshane
Is it possible to copy AIX print queues from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1? Would the copy of /etc/qconfig..
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2917212/1/groups

1841 ROUTER CONFIGURATION (Networkadmin-l)
Asked By aelshaikh (mr)
I am configuting a Cisco 1841 router to replace a Cisco 1604. The 1604 has interfaces called...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2916923/1/groups

XP CLIENT UNABLE TO RENEW DHCP LEASE FROM AIX DHCP-SERVER (Networkadmin-l)
Asked By Ulrich Hansen (Network Engineer)
My employeer is using AIX DHCP/DNS server and we're quite happy about that. Recently...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2916524/1/groups

POLICY BASED ROUTING WITH ROUTE TRACKING OPTION (Cisco-infrastructure-l)
Asked By chidanand Etagi
I am looking for a solution where in i have a Vendor Connection via Leased line to my Data center...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2916101/1/groups

NIC-ROUTER BUILT-IN CONNECTION STATUS CAPABILITY (Cisco-infrastructure-l)
Asked By ya9999sha (Dist. MbrofTech Stf)
Could you please advise if there are any NIC cards (looking for multiport PCI-e) and a CISCO router...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2915606/1/groups

DB2 LOGIN PROBLEM (Periphonics-l)
Asked By ericvb (psuedo programmer)
We have a program that makes updates and inserts to a db2 program, and which has been having...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2914627/1/groups

MODEM TO FIREWALL (Networkadmin-l)
Asked By Ambily | Replies (22)
Please help me to solve this.. I have a leased line internet connection I wanted to add..
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/2913856/1/groups

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Recent Blog Entries

ARE WE THE WEAKEST LINK TO DATA SECURITY?
Posted by Mark Tordoff (Marketing Manager)
On June 10th, eWeek's Brian Prince blogged about a recent Ponemon Institute study that was...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33104/3/Blogs

THE LAN PARTY.
Posted by Locutus (System Administrator)
The brakes squeal slightly as you pull up to the house. Opening up the boot you perform a juggling...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33280/3/Blogs

THE VIRTUES OF VIRTUALIZATION ARE STILL BEING COUNTED
Posted by Sherman Hand (Directory Of Security, Fraud and Abuse)
If you're an IT veteran, you probably remember the days when skepticism surrounded the concept...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33264/3/Blogs

SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCES ON PCI-DSS AUDITS TO BENEFIT ALL RETAILERS
Posted by Mark Tordoff (Marketing Manager)
The PCI Security Standards Council was formed in 2004 through the cooperative efforts of five...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33243/3/Blogs

USERS ARE NOT THE LUSERS YOU THINK THEY ARE.
Posted by Locutus (System Administrator) Comments(13)
The human race is arguably the most intelligent race on this fragile hunk of space rock. We all...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33263/3/Blogs

SECURITY - WHAT A MESS.
Posted by GreenMachine (Web Developer)
SMS iPhone Security - broken. Firefox vulnerabilities. IE and Windows vulnerabilities DNS...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33251/3/Blogs

CITRIX SELF-SERVICE TOOLS
Posted by Andy Etzler (Citrix Administrator)
There are a few tools out there that make it easier to troubleshoot problems or to just find out...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33244/3/Blogs

WOULD YOU CHEAT ON AN IT AUDIT? WOULD YOU ADMIT IT IF YOU DID?
Posted by Mark Tordoff (Marketing Manager) Comments(2)
Back on May 27th, eWeek's Brian Prince posted a blog entitled, Cheating on Your Security Audits....
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/2/2/33103/3/Blogs

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