Configuration guides for IT Administrators

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Step 1 – Configure SNMP in Paloalto Firewall Note: Paloalto Firewall supports SNMP version v2c and v3 and not v1. Configure SNMP Community String Login to Paloalto Firewall Go to Device > Setup > Operations tab > Click SNMP Setup under Miscellaneous Configure SNMP Community String and Save Use Event-specific Trap Definitions means the firewall uses…

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Are you experiencing problem of no traffic directed to a pool members? Have you got multiple iRules associated to a specific virtual server and do you experience problem with the order of iRule being executed? The solution to above problems is defining Priority in F5 iRule. Know About iRule behavior iRules are loaded into an…

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Configure Fortigate IP Address Feed After spending several days, I figured out how to configure IP address feed on Fortigate firewall. This is one of demanding feature requested by most Fortigate administrators to ease their job. You can also download our free tool – Firewall Feed to easily manage text file of IP address in your…

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Download Audacity from audacityteam.org and install. Its free. Open both files on Audacity. Select second wav file and press Ctrl+A to select all and choose Ctrl+C to copy. On first wav file, press at the end of Audio and press Ctrl+V to paste. Now both files are merged. Choose Export > Export as WAV to…

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Cisco UCCX supports .wav audio files with attributes of CCIT U-Law, Sample Size: 8bit and Sample Rate: 8KHz However iphone’s Voice Memo app generates audios on .m4a (MPEG 4 Audio) format. It is compatible with Apple devices, but not with Cisco UCCX. Hence .m4a must be converted to proper .wav format. Convert .m4a to…

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Please read carefully – All FortiGate appliances are bundled with 10 free license of managed Forticlient that performs ‘Compliance Check’. If you go beyond 10, then additional license must be purchased. However, if you are using Forticlient for the purpose of VPN alone (without Compliance Check), then you don’t require additional license. Remote Access VPN (IPSec…

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Series II Configure Paloalto Firewall to access External Dynamic List We are assuming that your feed server is running on your local network and the feed URL is accessible as http://10.10.10.2/text15.txt Important Note: Paloalto External Dynamic List accepts feed in .txt format only and each entry must be on new line. Step 1: Service…

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Series I Firewall Feed is an open source web based tool written on PHP to setup and manage your own IP address feed in your local network. Click to Download Firewall Feed from Github The tool facilitates maintaining IP addresses in a text file. As and when needed, you can add or remove IP address in…

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In a branch office where there are few users with just one IP subnet used , I need to configure Fortigate Management interface in the same subnet of LAN. By default, FortiGate doesn’t permit such configurations and if you still try to configure, you get an error “Conflicts with LAN subnet“. Management Interface = 10.10.10.5 LAN…

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Problem is When you access Outlook Web Access (OWA) as for example https://mail.itadminguide.com, F5 redirects your request to actual CAS server address, https://hubcas1/owa instead of retaining the request URL. Solution is In you are facing this problem then it means SSL is configured on CAS Server hence choose SSL Bridging in your F5 Exchange iApp…

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