The Systems Engineer

I am creating this post using a Cisco Cius. What better way to put this device to the test than to actually use it? I have went through the basics and advanced self paced labs here in the world of solutions. The basics covered the android os on cius as well as how to create a video call and some of the other cool features. The call quality looked great, though a little laggy here on the demo floor, which was to be expected.

Using pocketcloud to connect to a windows 2008 r2 desktop works fine as well. Also a little laggy but I still think that could be solved with enterprise wireless instead of demo booth wireless. I am using a full size keyboard and mouse connected via usb to the cius phone docking station.

For giggles I’ll undock the cius to prove my connection remains to my RDP desktop and complete this post. Looks like I had to reconnect to my session. The software keyboard is a bit difficult to use. However it looks like i will complete this post just fine.

Very interested to play wih this device in my environment, I see some good potentials.

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Day two here at Networkers, sorry Cisco Live, is well underway. I am in my first session and it is resonating with me! Utilizing ITIL event management, incident management, problem management, and change management to when providing network services has been on the radar for me recently.

I have been thinking about how to fix my “broken” event management. Sure we notify of issues on the network. The issue is more about the noise from excessive notifications. The solution? Proper event management. Things like creative tickets and managing their resolution properly for events on the network. Squelching the noise to allow us to clearly hear the actual issues. Moving away from blowing up the email on your phone and instead aggregating events and correlating them.

A lot of the slides in this presentation have excellent KPI’s provided via charts and graphs. I have been given a lot of ideas of how I want to be able to view my KPI’s with the new CMDB we have been planning to deploy.

If you have too many alerts, less than ideal change management, or a desire to improve your network management systems I would recommend viewing this presentation. If you would like to see how ITIL can quickly apply to the network world you may want to take a peek at this session as well.

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Well this was a very interesting session. Roberto Mari gave the presentation. He is the product manager of the line and boy does he know his stuff. I’m always fascinated by the level thought that has to go into designing these switches. The high availability design of the OS is amazing. Running Linux and supporting the multiple processors and other hardware has given some nice advantages. Things like being able to watch processes and if a process stops responding they can actually restart it with a new pid but maintain the state of it before the crash.

The virtualization that NX-OS supports is of great interest to me as well. My company continues to grow and i can visualize a point at which we will end up with potentially a production, development, test, etc networks. The ability separate some of these for real tests especially in conjunction with our ability to bring up machines, the actual machine, a clone of a machine in VMware.

I would suggest reviewing this session on your USB stick if you missed it.

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