Purpose This note provides a technical comparison between iMaster NCE-Campus and the Cisco products Catalyst Center (formerly DNA Center, DNAC) and ISE. Core principle: iMaster NCE-Campus does not map to exactly one Cisco product. The closest Cisco match for the… Read moreiMaster NCE-Campus vs Cisco Catalyst Center / ISE
Purpose This note describes the separate iMaster NCE-CampusInsight product in independent deployment mode: product positioning logical architecture data model deployment modes high availability / DR typical hardware and sizing guidance Product Positioning CampusInsight is an independent intelligent O&M platform. It… Read moreiMaster NCE-CampusInsight – Independent Deployment, Architecture, and Sizing
Purpose This note summarizes the main points about iMaster NCE-CampusInsight: Network Health View User Experience Application Experience View Data collection layer and analytics pipeline comparison between classic SNMP and telemetry streaming Basic Idea of CampusInsight iMaster NCE-CampusInsight is the analyzer/analytics… Read moreiMaster NCE-CampusInsight – Overview and Data Analytics
Purpose This note summarizes iMaster NCE-Campus licensing for the three relevant operating models: On-premises MSP-owned Cloud Huawei Public Cloud The focus is on the licensing model, license components, responsibilities, and the practical differences in operation. Basic Idea According to Huawei,… Read moreiMaster NCE-Campus – Licensing
Purpose These notes summarize the main iMaster NCE-Campus deployment models: when they are used, how high availability and geographic redundancy are implemented, and what the minimum requirements for CPU, RAM, disk, and NICs are. Overview of Deployment Variants 1) Single-node… Read moreiMaster NCE-Campus – Deployment Variants and Minimum Requirements
We recently ran into an interesting issue with Ekahau AI Pro in an enterprise environment using SSL inspection. Symptom: Cloud projects would not load at all. Root cause (most likely): As soon as SSL inspection was disabled on the… Read moreEkahau AI Pro Cloud Projects won’t load with SSL Inspection
Introduction Logdash is a syslog platform built to receive FortiGate event logs over Syslog TLS and turn them into operationally useful insights. The ingest layer is based on rsyslog, while Logdash itself is a custom frontend tailored to FortiGate-centric environments…. Read moreLogdash: A Lightweight Syslog Operations Layer for FortiGate Event Data
What Netdash Is Netdash is a super lightweight solution for Fortigate Firewalls, that gives you everything at a glance without requiring additional licenses. It is built entirely around HTTPS webhooks, so there is no polling overhead and no heavy management… Read moreNetdash – Webhook based Fortigate asset management dashboard
Building a DIY ESP Temperature Logger to Find Out Modern access points are no longer just radios. They’re basically small servers with antennas. Multi-core CPUs. Three radios. 320 MHz channels. Multi-Gig uplinks. Up to 60 watts PoE. Which raises a… Read moreHow Hot does a C9176 Access Point get inside a closed enclosure?
Today I wanted to upload a new image into EVE-NG to play around with a Palo Alto firewall.The problem? The last time I uploaded an image was quite a while ago — and, unsurprisingly, I did it wrong on the… Read moreEVE-NG Images Don’t Show Up