I recently joined a company that has Cisco switches throughout the network. My boss has told me that my first task is to upgrade the switches to the latest available firmware. I have been around Cisco ...

Nutter helps a reader with a new Catalyst switch and a handful of Macs I just converted my company over to a Cisco Catalyst 6509 core switch. Several weeks after the fact I found out that there are a ...

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a necessary tool for every network administrator. You can easily configure it with just a few commands. SNMP is still the most popular way to monitor ...