Add VLAN to a Lenovo switch in a MCLAG cluster

There are consistency check in the Lenovo swtiches when they are participating in a MCLAG cluster. Therefor the switche will shutdown the ports if there are an inconsistency between the MCLAG members. First disable the consistency check on all members: Add the VLAN to all members when the VLANs has been added to all the … Read more

Microsoft CA Server installation

Install the Windows feature. Open powershell as admin and execute the following command I strongly reccomend to not use the server name as the CA Common Name, since this will be an eyesore when the CA Service will be moved to another server with a different name at some point. Then the feature is installed … Read more

SCP into an arista switch

The username you use must be defined explicitly with “privilege 15” as part of the definition, so it will look like this perhaps: That puts your user in privileged mode automatically, otherwise you won’t have permission to scp the image into the flash.

Enable remote connections in Forticonverter

The new FortiConverter is designed as a web application. The application (FortiConverter.py) should be run with Administrator privileges because it reads and writes data from/to high privilege directories. For security concerns, the default configuration only allows connections from users on the localhost.   To enable remote access to the web application Run notepad as an … Read more

Forgot admin password on a Fortigate

Factory reset when forgot admin password   Reboot the fortigate When the login prompt appears you have max 14 seconds to login with the maintainer account   Username: maintainer Password: bcpb<FORTIGATE SN IN UPPER CASE> Example of password bcpbFG100FTK19015233