Cisco Clear Counters

To clear counters from "show int <interface>"

hostname# clear counters <interface>

Cisco IOS Scheduled backups

I needed a way to take regular backups of my Cisco equipment on my network.

Doing it manually was time consuming and difficult to rely on busy engineers.

I started to look at scripting using Putty and SSH different tools.

Then I found CatTools from Kiwi.
http://www.kiwisyslog.com/kiwi-cattools-overview/

It allows me to take regualar backups of my devices.

and it also compares the backups and notifies by email of any changes to the configuration.

Perefect for what I needed.

Server 2008 Time Sync

Had an issue with my Domain controller not updating its timne correctly from the internet.

Just ran the following commands:

w32tm /config /syncfromflags:MANUAL /manualpeerlist:uk.pool.ntp.org

w32tm /config /update

w32tm /resync

Thanks to : http://blog.tanist.co.uk/2009/04/internet-time-tab-missing-in-server-2008/

That worked for me.

Another usefull command is:

w32tm /stripchart /computer:timeserver /samples:5 /dataonly

This will identify the time difference between the local pc and the "timeserver"

DFS-R not working for BAK and TMP files

I was having issues with DFS-R not working between two servers on my company network.

Orginally I thought it was becuase the files were to large, and I was replicating over a WAN.

Turns out it is becuase of the filter settings on DFS-R.

Luckly I found this post.

http://itsnoted.blogspot.com/2009/10/dfsr-not-replicating-bak-files.html

Signed up for Blog Spot

As you can see I have just signed up to Blog Spot.

Will hopefully update this as I learn the pit falls that I don't already know from my 6 year experience, as an IT engineer