Troubleshooting VTP

•If a switch doesn’t seem to be receiving updated information from a VTP server:

–Either the swtich is in transparent mode. Verify by “show vtp status”

–“there might not be a switch configured as vtp server”

–The link between the switch and the other switches is not in trunking mode. VTP can be advertised only over trunk links. To verify if an interface is trunk or acess

•“show interface type mod/num switchport”

–Make sure the vtp version is compatible with other switches in the VTP domain.

–Make sure the VTP password matches in the vtp domain

–Make sure the VTP domain name match that of the VTP server

VTP configuration

•By default vtp mode is server, management domain is NULL, and there is no password.

•If a switch receives a VTP summary advertisement on a trunk port from any other switch, it will automatically learn the VTP domain name, VLANs and the configuration revision number it hears.

•Before you add a switch to the network, verify that the revision number is set to 0 “show vtp status”

•There is two ways to configure VTP:

–Global config mode

–vlan database mode mostly deprecated

To join a specific VTP management domain, you have to “vtp domain domain-name

Configuring the VTP mode:

–Server mode: multiple VTP servers can coexist in a domain. The servers do not elect primary or secondary, if one server is configured with a new VLAN or VTP parameter, it advertises the changes to the rest of the domain. All other servers synchronize the VTP databases to this advertisement just as any VTP client would

–Client mode: if you want to configure a as VTP server, you start it as a client to learn the latest changes, than you configure it in server mode.

–Transparent mode: this mode is used if a switch will not share the VLAN information with any other switch in the network. VLAN can still be created, deleted or modified, but they are not advertised, however VTP advertisement received by a transparent switch are forwarded out trunk links. Keeping switches in transparent mode can eliminate the chance for duplicate over-lapping VLANs in large network with many network administrators

–“vtp mode {server | client | transparent}

–Vtp password password

On some IOS, you can turn vtp off, by using the command vtp off command. This command allows the switch to act the same as if it is in a vtp transparent with the addition that the switch doesn't forward vtp advertisement on trunk links.
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How to configure PPP authentication

I would like to explain in this article how to configure PPP authentication between two routers.
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Let's take a look first at our diagram:

As you see in the image, we have 2 routers connected through serial point-to-point interfaces. The subnet is 192.168.13.0/24.

R3 must authenticate R1, means in order for router R3 to accept PPP connection with router R1, R1 must proove his identity to router R3. And let's say that Router R3 will authenticate R1 by PAP authentication

Let us start with first basic ppp connectivity

Router R3
sh run int s0/0/1
interface Serial0/0/1
ip address 192.168.13.3 255.255.255.0
encapsulation ppp
end

router R1
show run int s0/1/0
interface Serial0/1/0
ip address 192.168.13.1 255.255.255.0
encapsulation ppp
clock rate 2000000
end

So as we said the authentication is PAP, and it is local (means when R3 wants to authenticate router R1, R3 will look in its own local database). So for that purpose, we will create a local username and password on router R3. We will name the user R1User and password is password.
R3(config)#username R1User privilege 1 password password
Now On router R3, we need to tell the router R3 to use local database for ppp authentication.
so first:
R3(config)#aaa new-model
Then we created a list called R1-PPP-AUTH, this list is local authentication list for ppp connectivity
R3(config)#aaa authentication ppp R1-PPP-AUTH local
So now let us attach this list authentication to the ppp connection on the serial interface s0/0/
R3(config-if)#ppp authentication pap R1-PPP-AUTH
R3(config-if)#
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0/0/1, changed state to down
R3(config-if)#
As you see that once we configured the ppp authentication, the line protocol goes down on s0/0/1

So what we have to do now is to move the router R1 and configure it to send username and password to router R3, so that router R3 will know that the connection is sent from router R1
R1(config-if)#ppp pap sent-username R1User password password
R1(config-if)#
*Jan 14 10:52:36.919: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Serial0/1/0
As you see, once we entered this command on router1, the ppp connection came up.

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5 interview questions for a system administrator

I would like to write a series of questions that can be asked in for a sysadmin position.
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Linux Questions:

How to create a symbolic link ?
ln -s

How to reset a password for a CentOS operating system ?

Boot with the CentOS CD,
Then run ls /dev/sda* to get a list of the drives
mount them, then try to see which one is the / drive (it should contains the /etc directory). change to this drive with chroot, then run passwd command

Windows questions:
How to clean the active directory from a domain controller that had a hardware failure ?
First, if it has one of the 5 roles, I have to seize the roles with another domain controller, then I have to use the ntdsutil command line to remove the failed domain controller form the active directory.

How do I use a domain local group and global group ?
Global group should be related to departments or team. For example, i create a global group for accountants, i create a global group from system admin, another global group for database admin.
Domain local group can be used to assign permissions to ressource (Files,Folders and printers..)
So I assign permission to domain local group (maybe 1 for read only and 1 for read and write), then I add the global group that need access to the specific resource inside that domain local group

 Exchange Server 2010
How to clear the transaction log files for a specific database ?
Backup this datbase

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Get Calendar permissions in Exchange 2010

If you need to give access to a mailbox for a certain user. You can through the Exchange management console give him full access.
How about if you need to give him only a read access to the calendar.
By default everybody in the organization has read free/busy time for the calendar of any mailbox in the organization. How about if you need to give a manager to be able to know what are the meeting, appointments for his employees. You need to give him Reviewer permission on the calendar of his employees.
You cannot do this in Exchange management console, you need to do it in Exchange management shell.
Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "Employee1:\Calendar" -User Manager1 -AccessRights Reviewer

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Get the Mailbox Size for a list of users in Exchange 2010

In the previous blog "Get Mailbox Size for an account in Exchange 2010", we talked on how to get the mailbox size for 1 user using the Microsoft Exchange Shell of Exchange 2010.
Now, we will explain how to get the mailbox size for a list of users.

It is very simple, Have the list of users sorted by line in a text file.
An example of the text file ITDepartment.txt file:

ITServices Montreal
Networking Montreal
Exchange2010 Montreal

where "ITServices Montreal"is the display name of the user. You can also use the email address, or the user principal name instead of the display name.We will the place the ITDepartment.txt file in the C:\Scripts folder.

What we need to do first is to get the list of the users inside this text file:
Try the command:
Get-Content "C:\Scripts\ITDepartment.txt"

The result will be:
[PS] C:\windows\system32>Get-Content "C:\scripts\ITDepartment.txt"
ITServices Montreal
Networking Montreal
Exchange2010 Montreal

[PS] C:\windows\system32>

Now for each line resulted from the Get-Content command, we need to run the MailboxStatistics, so we use the "|"

Now try the whole command:

[PS] C:\windows\system32>Get-Content "C:\Scripts\ITDepartment.txt" | Get-MailboxStatistics | Format-List -property displayName, TotalItemSize



DisplayName : ITServices Montreal
TotalItemSize : 61.18 MB (64,155,174 bytes)

DisplayName : Networking Montreal
TotalItemSize : 163 MB (170,937,036 bytes)

DisplayName : Exchange2010 Montreal
TotalItemSize : 25.03 MB (26,243,124 bytes)

[PS] C:\windows\system32>

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Get Mailbox Size for an account in Exchange 2010

Let's say we need to get the Mailbox Size of the user: ITServices

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity ITServices  | Format-List -property displayName, TotalItemSize

DisplayName   : ITServices

TotalItemSize : 26.32 MB (27,601,859 bytes)

So In order to get the mailbox size

, you have to get the MailboxStatistics, but if you use only the command: Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity ITServices , you will not get the mailbox size, you will get the ITemCount and the storageLimitStatus

DisplayName               ItemCount      StorageLimitStatus       LastLogonTime

-----------                   ---------         ------------------        -------------

ITServices User           1792              BelowLimit                  22/08/2011 5:57:29 PM

To show all values of the Mailbox you need to use the command:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity ITServices | Format-List

If you need to show only the display name and the size value, then you must specify to show the properties "displayName" and "totatItemSize" only:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity   ITServices  | Format-List -property displayName, TotalItemSize

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