The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a necessary tool for every network administrator. You can easily configure it with just a few commands. SNMP is still the most popular way to monitor ...

Many administrators forget—or don't even realize—that they can configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) on Cisco IOS routers and switches. David Davis discusses the pros and cons of this ...

I've been setting up some Cisco switches from scratch recently (2960G) and I am wondering how I should manage the configs. I started by writing out all of my commands in a plain text file, and then ...