Showing content for author: Matt Faraclas

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On-board NICs used on an open server: Check Point Firewalls Configuration Guide to Alerts.

indeni uses a series of tools, as well as data previously collected, to determine which NICs on an open server are the on-board ones.

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Check Point Alert of the Week: A NIC and fw_worker shouldn’t be assigned to the same core

This is a real life sample alert from indeni. Description: Having one or more NICs assigned to the same CPU core as an fw_worker will result in degraded…

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Questions May Return an Incorrect Value: F5© Alert of the Week: iRules using DNS

This is a real life sample alert from indeni for F5 Load Balancing Methods Description: The DNS::question iRule command may return an incorrect value. This…

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VPN peer not responding or unreachable

This is a real life sample alert from indeni Description: Some of the device’s VPN peers are not responding to VPN traffic. Affected VPN Peers VPN…

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Announcing indeni 5.1: F5© BIG-IP© support, many improvements

We’re excited to announce version 5.1. While this version has been generally available for a few months now, it has had improvements added to it over…

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Network Device Configuration Standardization – Thoughts on Ethan Banks’ post

Network device configuration standardization can be a challenge even for the most experienced network engineer. Check our post on the matter. Read More.

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F5 Self IP and unicast failover IP are not identical

This is a real life sample alert from indeni for F5 Load Balancing Methods Description: The F5 unicast failover IP must be the same as the self IP for…

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Check Point Alert of the Week: VPN phase two lifetime mismatch with a VPN peer

This is a real life sample alert from indeni. Description: The phase two life time values used by this device and by some of its peers are different. This…

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Check Point Alert of the Week: Cluster member down due to NIC error

It’s so easy sometimes to disconnect the wrong cable. This is a real life sample alert from indeni. Description: The cluster member is in a critical…

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iRules May Break in a Future Upgrade, or Today: F5© Alert of the Week:

This is a real life sample alert from indeni for F5 Load Balancing Methods Description: indeni has run a syntax check of the iRules currently configured on…

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Monitored or Permanent VPN tunnels down: Check Point Firewalls Configuration Guide

indeni loads the VPN Community configurations and then tests the VPN tunnels on each gateway using the ‘vpn tu’ command. Read more.

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DNS servers configured but responding too slowly: Check Point Firewall

indeni runs the command “nslookup www.indeni.com” (or the command for the given device being analyzed) every hour and times how long it takes to complete it

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