Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Monitoring as new Network Admin

Hey guys. Just inherited an environment w/ financial trouble. Expectation is just to maintain and upkeep. No budget to add-on. I am still young in Network Admin role so I was looking for best day to to day monitoring / best practices. Environment is:

- Cisco ASA as edge firewall w/ HA (1 for VPNs)

- mix of dark fiber, e-Lans, and dedicated internet circuits to branch offices

- mostly HP (pre-aruba) l3 switches running RIP

- windows servers handling DHCP, DNS, Exchange, ...

- plenty of VLANs

- vm environment (lead Sys Admin mostly handles this)

- bunch of helpful utilities to monitor like WhatsUp, Splunk, Lansweeper, ...

Biggest thing is I'm not too familiar w/ RIP + BGP and want to make sure I know what to look for day-to-day.



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