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Running ASDM client from your Linux desktop

March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

For those of us who use Linux as a desktop replacement for Windows would find it nice to be able to run the ASDM client natively. If you haven’t upgraded your ASA/PIX to the latest ASDM you should do so. The steps are described here.

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Tags: cisco · desktop

HowTo recover from a corrupt rpm database

February 10th, 2009 · 8 Comments

RedHat based systems (rhel/fedora/centos) use rpm/yum to install and upgrade packages. If the rpm database gets corrupted in some way it will break all the functionality of rpm and other tools that rely on it like yum for example. We have seen this either showing some errors on the console, or most frequently just by [...]

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Tags: Centos · sysadmin

Upgrade to Java SE 6 update 12 on Fedora 10

February 9th, 2009 · No Comments

After our ASA units were updated to the latest version of ASDM my Java client would no longer connect to ASDM. An upgrade to the latest version of Java was in order. Since fedora yum repository does not yet offer the latest version of Java I downloaded the latest rpm variant of JDK from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
The [...]

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Tags: Installation · desktop