Author: Drew

X Window Workspace Rotation

One of the most satisfying parts of machine data is when you’re able to build fancy graphics to make sense of it. Once you’ve built these tables, charts and maps its time to show them off on a big screen mounted on the wall of your data center. While there are many ways to present […]


FortiGate – Ends

Anyone familiar with Cisco equipment will know that after you enter a command and hit carriage return the affects will be immediate on the running state. With Fortigate one gotcha that catches a lot of people is the use of the end command. Until you type end and hit enter your commands will not affect […]


HPE Networking – lldp: PVID mismatch

This one is more of an annoyance than a problem, but its good to keep your configurations clean in case another misconfiguration turns your annoyance into a real issue. Not to mention logs full of unactionables or meaningless data are just a distraction. Let’s take a look at the error in question: I 05/13/16 08:14:06 […]


Dual Firewall DMZ – Revisited

Two years ago I wrote regarding Dual Firewall DMZ design. While (I hope) it does well to illustrate how a DMZ can operate, admittedly its a clumsy design and not one I’d recommend. First and foremost, DMZ design has to meet the needs of implementation; there is no one-size-fits-all solution. That said, I want to […]


User-ID Mapping – Ignoring Users

In our post Palo Alto URL Filtering we covered User-ID which allows us visibility to the Active Directory account generating the traffic. Depending on the AD group you’re using you might get a service account being reported as mapped to that IP. There are a few ways to get around this problem, but the simplest […]