Thursday, 30 November 2023

library kiosk urls

 mysmartadmin.com

subscription.librarystationupdate.com

shared.bibliotheca.services

Thursday, 23 November 2023

how to open big log files

 needed to open a 5GB log file

tried a few different options but landed on notepad++ with bigfiles plugin


Thursday, 16 November 2023

palo alto user id not working for some user

Check for NTP settings on both firewalls


Saw an issue where the groups were not being downloaded

All config looked good, checked all settings etc

The cmd below was run and it came back

debug user-id reset user-id-manager type user-group

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

mac address formats

default: 1234.5678.90AB

IEEE 802/IETF: 12-34-56-78-90-AB


Unformatted: 1234567890AB

One byte 12:34:56:78:90:AB

Two byte 1234:5678:90AB


IP addresses were using dots

One byte 12.34.56.78.90.AB

two byte 1234.5678.90AB



Xerox made it and got 00-00-00

Cisco 00-00-0C

Next (later apple) 00-00-0F

Samsung 00-00-F0


MAC addresses are the address at L2

MAC addresses are possible to spoof so MAB sec not great


Some devices can't do MFA or 802.1x so MAC rules will be needed until devices get smarter.