It’s always a pleasure to run a presentation and at this years Oxford and Cambridge Colleges IT Conference has definitely been one of the highlights covering a new hobby – running all kinds of IoT applications on the ESP8266 micro-controller.
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Ruckus SmartZone – check that an Access Point has received the latest configuration
While iterating through an issue with our Ruckus SmartZone (with Ruckus R510 Access Points) controllers I was looking for a way to see when the Access Points had applied the new configuration; lone behold it’s quite easily done through both the CLI and the GUI. Anyone who has used the new SmartZone controllers will know all too well that’s it’s… Read more
How long does it take for an Eaton UPS Network Management Card to do a ‘Reset Communication’?
So over the last few hours I’ve been making some config changes to our Eaton UPS Network Management Cards that require the magical ‘Reset Communication’ button to be pushed in the web interface (one day I must get the management software!). To help speed up the process (or at least know when I should reload the page) I timed the… Read more
Remote Desktop Services – 2018 deployment (with Windows Server 2016)
After a great many years since Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm it’s time for something new! After much discussion and looking at the working practices at my current place of work we’ve decided to go all in with RDS and to support that we’ve got 3 new servers to run it on. 2x 1U rack mounts to go in our main server… Read more
New Ruckus (R510 on SmartZone) WAPs will not complete provisioning
While provisioning some new Ruckus R510 WAPs onto our SmartZone 100 (5.0.0.0.675) we’ve had a number of cases where the WAPs will reboot for their firmware update but will not proceed beyond that point. In particular the PWR and CTL lights stay lit but the radio lights do not come on at all. Looking in Access Points > Affected WAP… Read more
Does the HPE Aruba 2530-8G switch come with 19″ ears? Yes!
Normally the little 8 (well 10 if you include the ‘uplink’ ports) port switches we buy end up under a desk or on a shelf but for a one off we’ve got one going in a comms cabinet. Quite luckily the HPE Aruba 2530-8G come with the ears in the box to do this (I recall seeing some models of… Read more
Aruba (by HPE) 2530 – pictures
Today we received a new HPE Aruba 2530-48G-PoE+ (J9772A) which will be going in a new annex building. While not overly interesting I thought I might post the photos of it in the gallery below. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
ICTF Conference 2018 – Multi-Factor Authentication and Password Stores with Smart Cards and YubiKeys
Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the Oxford ICTF Conference on Multi-Factor Authentication and Password Stores with Smart Cards and YubiKeys, the video recording is online now here – https://youtu.be/WGtCxS2YFNA and the presentation can be downloaded through the link below. A special shout out goes to the Yubico press office for providing a set of YubiKey 4s, YubiKey NEOs and… Read more
Does the YubiKey Neo work with Paxton Net2 MIFARE Readers?
Yes! Yes it they do! In preparing for a presentation to some peers in the wider IT community tomorrow I have access to some YubiKey Neo authentication keys; in doing some extra reading up on the keys I thought – I wonder if these work with the MIFARE readers (note that these are MIFARE readers not the proprietary Paxton only… Read more
Mikrotik RouterBoard hAP ac – Unboxing
Recently I was inspired to take on some more information about routing and the associated protocols. To help support that I’ve gone and bought a Mikrotik RouterBoard hAP ac from Amazon (along with a RouterBoard hAP Lite). I hope to kick out a few blog posts on it along with my learning points over the next few days/weeks. In the meantime… Read more