Google released something today – a tool called The Customer Journey to Online Purchase. While this just a standalone tool at the moment, I’m sure we’ll witness parts of its capabilities integrated into Google Analytics at some point in the near future. This release, together a few more startups dotting the landscape (like RelateIQ, as described […]

This is a real life sample alert from indeni Description: This device is part of an Active-Active HA configuration without an additional standby device. This is contrary to F5’s recommendations on the matter. Manual Remediation Steps: Add a standby member to the HA group. How does this alert work? indeni automatically determines when certain devices […]

This is a real life sample alert from the Indeni Check Point Firewall Configuration Alert Guide. Description: Indeni has identified that some of the on-board NICs of this open server are being used. Traffic on these on-board NICs may be unstable and some packets may be dropped or experience errors. Review the list of NICs […]

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 performance. Affected Cores: Core 0 is assigned to both eth1 and fw_0 Manual Remediation Steps: Update the affinity of cores. Follow the CoreXL documentation. How does this […]

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 issue occurs when all of the following conditions are met: * An iRule for an LTM DNS event runs the DNS::question command, the iRule then runs a command that suspends […]

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 peer 191.119.141.40 is currently not responding Manual Remediation Steps: The VPN peer is not responding to VPN traffic. Please check network connectivity and contact the administrator of the VPN […]

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 the past two months. New product versions supported: F5© BIG-IP© 11.x New signatures: The following are some of the F5-related signatures included in this release: Identify node availability issues […]

Ethan Banks has an interesting newsletter called The Hot Aisle. Worth following if you’re not familiar with it, basically the thoughts of a very experienced network engineer. In today’s post, Ethan covers the item at the top of his wishlist: network device configuration standardization. Ethan’s wishes are those of many others that I meet with […]

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 failover to work. Versions prior to 11.3.0 did not enforce this. For more information read note #398067 in the 11.4.0 release notes. Manual Remediation Steps: Update […]

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 may cause VPN tunnels to fail after some time has passed from the moment they were set up. It is important to ensure the life time […]

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 state due to one or more monitored interfaces being down or disconnected from the network. NICs Down: eth7 Remediation Steps: For eth7 (Bandwidth: 1000M/full, MAC Address: 00:1C:7F:30:9E:14): While the […]

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 this device according to the syntax used in version 11.6.0 (this device is running 11.1.0). The following iRules did not pass the syntax checks. This may impact the […]