Author: Rashid

Cisco Mobility Services Engine Software Downgrade to 8.0

Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE) 8.0 is a wireless mobility and security services engine. It works in conjunction with Cisco Prime Infrastructure instance to deliver these services. After initial build and minimal configuration, most of the other configuration tasks can be carried out through Cisco Prime Infrastructure server. Cisco Connected Mobile Experience (CMX) is a
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Introduction to Digital Certificates

Digital certificates are the cornerstone of the modern e-commerce and secure internet communications in general. A digital certificate is a means to establish trust, one way or mutual, between two parties before a transaction can take place between the two. The contents and integrity of the transaction are protected by the digital certificate from evesdroppers, who may
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Cisco Identity Services Engine Upgrade Failure 2.0 to 2.3

  Experience with upgrading a two-node Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) deployment from version 2.0 to 2.3.   Current Cisco ISE deployment: !!!! Hardware VMware 6.5 Node 1: Primary Admin, Secondary Monitoring, PSN 4 CPU 24G Memory Node 2: Secondary Admin, Primary Monitoring, PSN 4 CPU 24G Memory !!!! Show version Cisco Application Deployment Engine
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Cisco Prime Infrastructure Inline Upgrade Failure 3.1 to 3.4

  Experience with upgrading a Cisco Prime Infrastructure instance from version 3.1 to 3.4.   Current Prime Infrastructure Instance: !!!! Hardware VMware 6.5 16 CPU 24G Memory !!!! show version Cisco Application Deployment Engine OS Release: 3.1 ADE-OS Build Version: 3.1.0.001 ADE-OS System Architecture: x86_64 Copyright (c) 2009-2016 by Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Regular Expressions for Network Engineers

How many times were you working on a task which involved either updating all instances of a piece of configuration or creating a new configuration piece at multiple points on a network device?  You have translated the requirements into functional syntax, a blueprint, for the specific hardware platform, now it’s time to implement it 10’s
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