Here are a few quick tips to gain some serious performance in EVE-NG for your network labs! Please note I am assuming you are running EVE-NG as a VM within ESXI aka nested virtualization. 1 - Build your nodes with VIRTIO Adapters when you can. 2 - Install latest VirtIO drivers and then commit the …
How To Configure Cisco, HP, Dell switch Radius Authentication to Windows NPS
This is going to be a quick config on how to configure your Cisco, HP, and Dell switches to authentication to AD via a Windows NPS Server. I am providing the config and policies that have worked for me. I even included a policy and config for the Cisco ASA. First of all we need …
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EVE-NG NESTED USB WIFI-NIC and ETHERNET-NIC Passthrough To VMs
I have an EVE-NG VM and I am passing through my USB ethernet and WIFI nics to it. Then I am passing those nics over to the guests running in labs. Here is how to get this properly working, when editing your windows 7, 8, 10, or even linux guests, you need to change a …
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How to deploy the VirtualBox LibreNMS OVA into VMware ESXI
This all started when I wanted to quickly deploy an instance of LibreNMS as I hadn't used it in a long time. I totally forgot that the OVA is virtual box only image. Now I don't have any issues doing the CLI install as it's short, but it irked me that this didn't work. I …
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EVE-NG how to activate WSA, ESA, and SMA permanently
Before you can activate the nodes you'll need to set them up in EVE, follow the EVE-NG guide for that here. http://www.eve-ng.net/documentation/howto-s/115-howto-add-cisco-wsa-web-security-appliance Once you've got that complete start your lab up and configure the nodes. Confirm your HTTP/HTTPS reachability before continuing. Now head over to Cisco's licensing portal and grab some trial licenses of each …
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APIC-EM IWAN DEPLOYMENT FAILURE ERRORS: PKI-3-CERTIFICATE_INVALID and %PKI-3-SOCKETSELECT
I was recently doing some labbing of APIC-EM and IWAN deployments. I got to the point where my HUB was deployed, and then I attempted to deploy 2 branches but failed. I was getting these errors on my Routers: PKI-3-CERTIFICATE_INVALID: Certificate chain validation has failed%PKI-3-SOCKETSELECT: Failed to select the socket. APIC-EM seems to deploy IWAN …