Colin McNamara - CCIE 18233 , VCP, RHCE, GCIH, GEEK

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Cisco Nexus NX-OS and DCNM XML API’s - Cisco Live 2008

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Since I am at Cisco Live Networks all week, and I take notes anyways, i thought I would share them with you.
NX-OS / DCNM XML API Fundamental Technology
Netconf - platform for secure communication of XML data between DCNM / NX-OS and mgmt station.
XML, using clear text tags, creates a self describing API. This is necessary [...]

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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · NX-OS · Technology

Passed CCDE written and Recertified my CCIE - Killed two birds with one stone

June 16th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Today was a good day, I knocked two major items of my todo list. The first, was passing the CCDE written.

This is the first step towards sitting for a practical examination that will hopefully be released this October. And, in response to Micheal Morris’s blog post - Yes Mike, I can pass the CCDE written.
The [...]

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Tags: CCDE · CCIE · CISCO · MPLS · Technology · consulting

Certguard, Ethan Banks, Network World and Common Sense

June 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Robert Williams, owner or Certguard is accusing Ethan Banks of cheating and calling for his CCIE certification to be removed.

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · Technology · Uncategorized · blogger · business · certification · consulting