(Part 2) Best products from r/Cisco

OP, if you live in a decent sized city and you are a go getter, it won't be hard to make a decent living doing IT in a short period of time.

Everyone else is giving you technical advice. I'm going to give you job hunting advice that will work in any field you are in.

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   You will make strong connections and find a job that much quicker.

I found this book an excellent intro to QoS

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1119109108/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

It's not vendor specific. QoS fundamentals are pretty much Universal, the concepts of classification, policing, marking, queuing, scheduling.

I found it really useful to learn to think in vendor neutral terms first, then map the vendor implementation details onto that model.

Yea, that's what I figured but was hoping for some good luck. I think I'm getting this one since 1 USB has been a limitation several times now.

https://www.amazon.com/KDLINKS%C2%AE-U3HN1-Gigabit-Network-Adapter/dp/B00SMFVGTY/ref=sr_1_20?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1473659071&sr=1-20&keywords=usb+to+ethernet&refinements=p_72%3A1248879011%2Cp_n_feature_keywords_four_browse-bin%3A7899513011

The UAP-AC-PRO-US would be close to the 2702 and is 1/3rd the price. It's 3x3 mimo, but I've yet to see a real-world situation where the clients could do 3x4 or 4x4

Controller is free. Really nice too if you're using the Unifi line of switches as you get central visibility for both wired and wireless clients.

A USB to RJ45 cable will probably work fine.

I've never used one, and I don't see any such cables with long histories of positive reviews & glowing feedback.

But I have used USB to DB9 serial adapters, combined with traditional DB9 to RJ45 Cisco Console Cables for years, with excellent result.

USB to DB9
DB9 to RJ45 Console Cable

The mobility express bundle will be going away so if you are interested in it, I would recommend it.

I personally would recommend the 2702 AP as the minimum if you can afford them. Here is a 2702 bundle on Amazon for $1189 and the APs are the universal domain so you can use them in any country.

http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Mobility-Express-Bundle-Controller/dp/B00U1J5BV8

These switches are not meant to be configured using a UI. Usually these are setup to use SSH (or telnet if you are ok with your password being sent unencrypted) or SNMP. There is a GUI option for these but you have to make sure to load the correct files and set it up for it, it's not default and you may need a service contract to download the right files. The reason for no UI is that it's not necessary and can actually slow you down if you need to configure a lot of these at a time. If I need to add a command to over a hundred switches, I don't want a GUI. I would want to push it via SSH or if I do have to log into every switch, I'd have the commands needed in a text editor so I can copy and paste.

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These switches by default out of the box are usually configured using the console port on the back using a special rs-232 to rj-45 cable. There are some USB to RJ45 Serial Cables out now that will allow you to connect.

This book is helpful and will give you some basic understanding. If you're not working in the system all the time, don't sweat not knowing the background or super technical aspects.

Cisco Console cables are for wussies. :) I'm on mobile so I'll have to circle back around to post the link, but I mapped the pinout for a RJ45 to DB9 adapter. Pick up something like this: StarTech.com - Serial adapter - DB-9 (F) - RJ-45 (F) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00006IRQA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Bfevxb4ZWT81V and follow the pinout, all you need is a straight through ethernet cable and you're in business.

It's pretty straight forward, just mirror existing configs. https://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Unified-Communications-Manager-Administration-ebook/dp/B007FH3QI4/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1482084470&sr=8-1 has some basic tutorials as well if you want a book instead of the internet.

I just put one of these in my ASA5505 and it works great.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006TTDEO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Can't beat it for $12.

Ended up buying a 4GB CF and creating a 2GB FAT16 partition on it since the smaller ones are getting harder to find and are actually much more expensive.

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To expand on this, if you get arp and the mac address, you can start sifting through l2 to find it:

show mac address-table address h.h.h

Should work even on routers, just fyi.

Find the final access port it's on, and just admin it down.

Just.... before you go shutting down ports, make absolutely sure you're following down a netgear mac address, and not something else. There's several mac lookup sites.

Edit: Oh, and get rid of the damn netgear wireless router "AP", and buy anything else, like heck, maybe even this

I would recommend reading the following book from Cisco Press which goes into great detail about howto configure CUCM and Unity Connection. However, about 25% of the book will be useless to you because it covers the legacy Cisco Unity which ran on Windows.

Link: Configuring Cisco Communications Manager and Unity Connection

I think I got the same one off amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AHYJWWG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. Made by Gearmo B00AHYJWWG. Works great on my Lenovo Thinkpad running Windows 10. It came with a disk but the windows drivers worked without me needing the disk.

Just bought this one, it has lights for connection and data transmission as well as working with my windows 8 laptop. I tested it with putty and a old cisco 3550.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AHYJWWG/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You want this:

https://www.amazon.com/Configuring-Unified-Communications-Manager-Connection/dp/1587142260/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493214210&sr=8-1&keywords=cisco+cucm

Resetting Catalyst Switches to Factory Defaults

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-2900-xl-series-switches/24328-156.html

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USB Console Cable

https://www.amazon.com/Console-Essential-Accesory-Ubiquity-Switches/dp/B01AFNBC3K/ref=sr_1_6?crid=YZQA4LLNYATX&keywords=usb+to+serial+adapter&qid=1568230551&s=gateway&sprefix=usb+to++ser%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-6