[e-nsp] Best practice new hardware deployment

Marcin Kuczera marcin at leon.pl
Tue Dec 22 15:11:23 EST 2009


Andraz Sraka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just go myself new refurbished Extreme Blackdiamond 6808. Are there
> any best practices how to test and diagnose hardware, besides running
> 'show diagnostic ..' ? What are things that needed to be carefully
> checked?

well, at first:
run diagnostics extended ... (whatever)
then:
show diagnostics

I heard, that BD6808 have problems with interconnection between MSMs 
(popular backplane hardware fault). So - be carefull with this box.

> Also is there any good/secure practice how to start configuration? Like
> Junos/cisco security templates .. 

Junos/cisco config by default is almost empty.
In Extreme is more complete.
But - Can't help you at this stage.

Marcin



> 
> Thanks,
>  Andraz
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