Re: ip services and system management R&S

Hey Santiago.

That system management stuff may be boring, but in the real world, it
becomes real important how your environment is managed. And people expect
you will have all the answers coming in with your number. ;-)

But I agree with Dale. A couple of PCs or VM on your boxes to simulate your
IP services tasks.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Santiago Enciso
> <senciso_at_infocenter.com.py> wrote:
> > Have problems studying for ip services and system management. Find hard
> and
> > boring tu read from the doc cd and then try at the rack.
> > If somebody wants to share experience and tecnique about dealing with
> this
> > two big topics.
>
> I agree, it's pretty boring playing with SNMP and RMON in a lab of
> only Cisco devices. There's only so much insight you get doing it this
> way.
>
> Set up your own SNMP manager -- pick one of the open source (free)
> ones out there.
>
> Same goes for IP Services -- it's hard to create interesting scenarios
> when you're limited to lab equipment. Get a couple of PCs and connect
> them to your lab. Simulate 'real' end user connections to make NAT,
> gateway redundancy and all that stuff more realistic.
>
> There's no shortcut.
>
> cheers,
> Dale
>
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