ASA5545x basic config template Best Practice

Hello
I am in the process of making some major WAN/Data Center network changes. As part of that, i am installing
dual ASA5545x's in each DC (2) for redundancy. Please advise on what is best practice for basic configuration on these devices.

If you want a good overview guide, there's a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) that covers an ASA setup. See this link.
At the same time, firewall configuration and what you setup depends a lot on your policy and what you're using the firewall for - Internet edge, DMZ, milti-tenant, inter-department, remote access VPN (client-based and clientless), site to site VPN, etc.
Each has numerous options and no prescriptive guide covers them all.

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Does anyone have a standard template that they apply to all ios switches/routers/waps? I'm looking for some best practices for ios configs. For example, which services do you disable on all devices, what snmp settings, etc..
Thanks!

Hi,
See the below link :
http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-ios-template.html
Regards,
Mehrdad

Facelets template best practices

Hi,
As I gain more experience in JSF, I am doing things a bit differently. When I first started I was binding all components to a backing bean and using the component binding in code for various things such as multi component validation. Later I used only value bindings, and had a lot of configuration in the template:
<select id="country" jsfc="h:selectOneMenu" value="#{user.countryCode}" validator="#{someBackingBean.country_validate}" required="true" requiredMessage="#{theme_messages['field.country']} #{theme_messages['word.required']}">
    <f:selectItems value="#{someBackingBean.countryItems}"/>
</select>I modified that example from real code, so it might make more sense to use a converter than a validator for a country code... But anyway, there is a lot of per component configuration in my templates. When I create multiple themes/skins, this stuff has to be duplicated. When I make changes to the application, all themes have to be updated.
I think Wicket encourages you to bind all components to the "backing bean" and do your configuration in code. Your equivalent template would look something like this:
<select id="country" jsfc="h:selectOneMenu" binding="#{someBackingBean.countryDropDown}">
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</select>You might even leave the f:selectItems out of the template. The only challenge I foresee with this is that using JSF APIs to resolve EL to add a validator, converter, action, or whatever else into the component from code is very verbose and difficult. I asked the JSF expert group to enhance the APIs to make it easier to do everything in code, but it did not make the JSF 2.0 spec. They will consider it in a future release: [JSF API Ticket 363|https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=363]
Can anyone share their experiences with facelets template complexities and best practices they have learned? If you do most of your component configuration in code, how much of it do you allow in the template? Do you allow value bindings? The f:selectItems tag?
Thanks,
Ryan

If you want full understand facelets , Install NetBeans6.1, install facelets plugin for it, here isa link
http://armarz.ifolder.ru/9150024. if you want more about facelets read this book -
http://armarz.ifolder.ru/8396066 .
In net beans the first create web/facelets application, create facelets template, and client pages for it.
here is a template example, it hase top, left and content, also in each part inserted one xhtml file for defaults views(logo, logout...)
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
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</head>
<body>
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      <tr>
        <h:panelGroup rendered ="#{,,;,;,;,;,;,;l}">
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        </h:panelGroup>
        <td id="content" valign="top" align="left">
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<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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</ui:define>
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Template(best practice) for Switch ports

Hi,
Looking for best practice advice on switchport config for client facing ports.
We recently had an incident where an access port turned into a trunk(trunk mode desirable), which we obviously do not want to happen again!
For Access Ports(First two should stop DTP I'm hoping?):
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
storm-control broadcast level 20.00
storm-control action trap
no cdp enable
spanning-tree portfast
spanning-tree bpdufilter enable
spanning-tree guard root
switchport port-security maximum 10
switchport port-security
switchport port-security aging time 10
And for trunk ports to clients:
switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan xxx,xxx
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storm-control broadcast level 20.00
storm-control action trap
no cdp enable
spanning-tree bpdufilter enable
spanning-tree guard root
Thanks in advance.

Look here: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Branch/E_B_SDC1.html#wp68930
That's Cisco's branch design doc from Design Zone.
For those that want a fast answer:
For VoIP phones and PC:
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srr-queue bandwidth shape 3 0 0 0
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For data only:
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description DATA only ports
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switchport port-security
switchport port-security aging time 2
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That's Cisco's recommendation.
And just my opinion is that I'd much rather shut a port down that receives a BPDU than just filter it. Reason being that you can't trust users not to do something stupid, like hook two switch ports to the same switch they're using at their desk in an effort to "make the network faster". For two, if someone malicious plugs in a switch into your environment, shut the port down. . .that makes it hard for them to do anything malicious.

ETL patterns/strategies/templates/"best practices"

The OWB Users Guide is good for defining the OWB operators, but I'm having some difficulty deciding how to best combine those operators to formulate a mapping. I'm hoping someone will be able to point me to documentation that will fill the gap. It wouldn't necessarily need to be OWB specific.
Some example questions that I'm hoping an "ETL patterns" book or document would address:
1. High level implementation decisions (Is the source data staged locally? How/when are the changed records identified?)
2. Options for locally staging data.
3. Options for implementing a Type I/II/III SCD.
4. Options for implementing a cube.
I was able to find "Slowly Changing Dimensions with Oracle9i Warehouse Builder" (http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/products/warehouse/files/SCDWhitePaper.zip) that gave a lot of guidance on the SCD issues. The Type II SCD mapping presented in that document uses 10 operators. I never would have been able to formulate that on my own based on just reading the OWB documentation.
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Brian

Hi Torsten
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Torsten, generally you should follow the whitepaper, except for the last table/dimension :)
Don't sweat if your stuck - I've clicked a gazillion times in OWB, in order to make this work - ask again, if I don't make sence :)
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Resource class best practice

I have created a reserved context with 20% min and max = to min in every resource
including sticky.
I also have the default resource class
I have also created another resource with 20% sticky but left everything else at default 0-100%
our network traffic doesnt carry a heavy load on the new loadbalancer..but what is a good rule of thumb?
most of the traffic is http and at this point we will create about 2 contexts after the Admin

Hello!
This is a very pertinent question, however as many things in life there is no one size fits all here.
We basically recommend, as best practice, to allocate for each specific context only the estimated needed resources. These values should always come from a previous study on the network patterns/load.
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As you might already know ACE protects resources in use, this means that when decreasing a context's resources, the resources must be unused before then can be reused by other context. Although it is possible to decrease the resource allocations in real time, it typically requires additional overhead to clear any used resources before reducing them.
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Hope this helps to clarify your doubts.

Resource Bundles and Embedded fonts - best practice

Hello,
I am in digging into creating a localized app and I would
like to use embedded fonts.
Ideally, I would like to have two locales (for example), each
with a different embedded font and/or unicode range.
For example, how do I set up my localized app so that EN uses
Arial (Latin Range), and JP uses Arial Unicode MS with Japanese
Kanji unicode range ?
Note that I do know how to embed fonts with different ranges,
I just don't know how to properly embed them into resource bundles
and access them easily in style sheets.
Thanks!
-Daniel

Hello!
This is a very pertinent question, however as many things in life there is no one size fits all here.
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As you might already know ACE protects resources in use, this means that when decreasing a context's resources, the resources must be unused before then can be reused by other context. Although it is possible to decrease the resource allocations in real time, it typically requires additional overhead to clear any used resources before reducing them.
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Hope this helps to clarify your doubts.

CRM 5.2 Best Practices

Hi All;
I'm basically looking for Best Practices related to the new CRM 5.2. I need almost everything starting from Internet Sales Best Practices landing to activity and opportunity management.
Does anybody have documentation i could be interested in?
Thank you in advance.

Thank you Mike.
If it's possible i would like to have some sort of scenarios ready tailored on the new CRM 5.2... I'm preparing for my company some kind of demos where we wanna show the potentiality of the new UI.
I would lilke something more specific or a way how to get that...
Thank you again

Templates & Library items - best practice

I've been having a bit of a heated discussion about how
templates and library items should be used on medium to large
websites.
I'm of the opinion that you should have 1 template (or as few
as possible) and any differences be managed with Library items.
My colleague's argument is you should have a different
template for each section, so for example 1 for the news, 1 for the
features section (for magazine sites) so that if you have a banner
section wide you change that template, as opposed to the way I'm
used to which would be 1 template with multiple library items in
the editable regions of the template, my reasoning for this is the
large amount of html used for each template (like rollovers) can
become inconsistent when there's more than one template. Like if
you change something site wide you have to remember to change all
of the templates, if you do this with a simple copy past DW can
still make corrupt code if you use multiple templates.
So basically I was wondering if there was a standard or best
practice way of doing this.
Thanks

Your colleague is mistaken IN MY OPINION. I think you are on
the right
track *unless* your section pages are *SO* different in
layout that you
cannot conveniently include all of the
alterations/permutations in a single
template page. Further, my current workflow is to rely
heavily on
server-side includes within template pages, as described here
Templates do make your life much easier. I use the following
scheme....
First, I mentally separate the page layout into three
sections:
1. Stuff that will not change for the life of the site (i.e.,
the basic
structural elements)
2. Stuff that *could* change from time to time (e.g.,
navigation elements,
burst advertisements, section-specific navigation, etc.)
3. Stuff that *will* change from one page to the next
Then I create a template containing all class1 elements. Next
I create
server-side include files containing all class 2 elements and
place them on
the template as needed. Note - some of the class 2 elements
may be
"section-specific elements", and their placement on the
template will be
subject to the next item. Finally, I insert editable regions
to cover the
class 3 items, INCLUDING the section-specific navigation.
This allows me to just cookie-cut the rest of the site. I
estimate that
even for fairly large sites, about 80% of my work goes into
planning and
creating this template file.
For what it's worth, I never use Library items....
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> I've been having a bit of a heated discussion about how
templates and
> library
> items should be used on medium to large websites.
> I'm of the opinion that you should have 1 template (or
as few as possible)
> and
> any differences be managed with Library items.
> My colleague's argument is you should have a different
template for each
> section, so for example 1 for the news, 1 for the
features section (for
> magazine sites) so that if you have a banner section
wide you change that
> template, as opposed to the way I'm used to which would
be 1 template with
> multiple library items in the editable regions of the
template, my
> reasoning
> for this is the large amount of html used for each
template (like
> rollovers)
> can become inconsistent when there's more than one
template. Like if you
> change
> something site wide you have to remember to change all
of the templates,
> if you
> do this with a simple copy past DW can still make
corrupt code if you use
> multiple templates.
>
> So basically I was wondering if there was a standard or
best practice way
> of
> doing this.
>
> Thanks
>

Best Practices or Project Template for Rep/Version

I have installed the Repository 6i (3) and created the users successfully, even though it has taken a lot of effort to make sure each step is correct.
However, on setting up the workareas and importing the project files, I have been trying back and force to figure out where things go, and who has what access.
Is there something like a best practice or a project template for setting up a basic repository/version control system, that provides
1. the repository structure,
2. corresponding file system structure (for different developers, build manager, etc)
3. access grants, and
4. work scenarios, etc.
The Technet demos and white papaers are either too high-level (basic), or too individual function oriented. I can't get a clear picture of the whole thing, since there are so many concepts and elements that don't easily go together.
Considering that I am a decent DBA and developer, it has taken me 2 weeks, and I am still not ready to sign up other developers to use this thing. How do you expect any small development teams to ever use it? It's one thing to design it to be scalable and all-possible, it's another to make it easily usable. I have been suggested to use MS VSS. The only reason I am still trying Ora-Rep is its promise to directly support Designer and Oracle objects.

Andy,
I have worked extensively with the Repository over the last year and a half. I have collected some of my experiences and the derived guidelines on using the Repository in real life in a number of papers that I will be presenting at ODTUG 2001, next week in San Diego. If you happen to be there (see www.odtug.com), come and see me and we could talk through your specific situation. If you are not and you are interested in those papers, drop me an Email and I could send them to you (they probably will also become available on OTN right after the ODTUG conference).
best regards,
Lucas

Basic Strategy / Best Practices for System Monitoring with Solution Manager

I am very new to SAP and the Basis group at my company. I will be working on a project to identify the best practices of System and Service level monitoring using Solution Manager. I have read a good amount about SAP Solution Manager and the concept of monitoring but need to begin mapping out a monitoring strategy.
We currently utilize the RZ20 transaction and basic CCMS monitors such as watching for update errors, availability, short dumps, etc.. What else should be monitored in order to proactively find possible issues. Are there any best practices you all have found when implimenting Monitoring for new solutions added to the SAP landscape.... what are common things we would want to monitor over say ERP, CRM, SRM, etc?
Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions!

Hi Mike,
Did you try the following link ?
If not, it may be useful to some extent:
http://service.sap.com/bestpractices
---> Cross-Industry Packages ---> Best Practices for Solution Management
You have quite a few documents there - those on BPM may also cover Solution Monitoring aspects.
Best regards,
Srini
Edited by: Srinivasan Radhakrishnan on Jul 7, 2008 7:02 PM

Best practice for loading config params for web services in BEA

Hello all.
I have deployed a web service using a java class as back end.
I want to read in config values (like init-params for servlets in web.xml). What
is the best practice for doing this in BEA framework? I am not sure how to use
the web.xml file in WAR file since I do not know how the name of the underlying
servlet.
Any useful pointers will be very much appreciated.
Thank you.

It doesnt matter whether the service is invoked as part of your larger process or not, if it is performing any business critical operation then it should be secured.
The idea of SOA / designing services is to have the services available so that it can be orchestrated as part of any other business process.
Today you may have secured your parent services and tomorrow you could come up with a new service which may use one of the existing lower level services.
If all the services are in one Application server you can make the configuration/development environment lot easier by securing them using the Gateway.
Typical probelm with any gateway architecture is that the service is available without any security enforcement when accessed directly.
You can enforce rules at your network layer to allow access to the App server only from Gateway.
When you have the liberty to use OWSM or any other WS-Security products, i would stay away from any extensions. Two things to consider
The next BPEL developer in your project may not be aware of Security extensions
Centralizing Security enforcement will make your development and security operations as loosely coupled and addresses scalability.
Thanks
Ram

Best practice for frequently needed config settings?

I have a command-line tool I wrote to keep track of (primarily) everything I eat and drink in the course of the day. Obviously, therefore, I run this program many times every day.
The program reads a keyfile and parses the options defined therein. It strikes me that this may be awfully inefficient to open the file every time, read it, parse options, etc., before even doing anything with command-line input. My computer is pretty powerful so it's not actually a problem, per se, but I do always want to become a better programmer, so I'm wondering whether there's a "better" way to do this, for example some way of keeping settings available without having to read them every single time. A daemon, maybe? I suspect that simply defining a whole bunch of environment variables would not be a best practice.
The program is written in Perl, but I have no objection to porting it to something else; Perl just happens to be very easy to use for handling a lot of text, as the program relies heavily on regexes. I don't think the actual code of the thing is important to my question, but if you're curious, it's at my github. (Keep in mind I'm strictly an amateur, so there are probably some pretty silly things in my code.)
Thanks for any input and ideas.

There are some ways around this, but it really depends on the type of data.
Options I can think of are the following:
1) read a file at every startup as you are already doing. This is extremely common - look around at the tools you have installed, many of them have an rc file. You can always strive to make this reading more efficient, but under most circumstances reading a file at startup is perfectly legitimate.
2) run in the background or as a daemon which you also note.
3) similar to #1, save the data in a file, but instead of parsing it each time save it instead as a binary. If you're data can all be stored in some nice data structure in the code, in most languages you can just write the block of memory occuppied by that data structure to a file, then on startup you just transfer the contents of the file to a block of allocated memory. This is quiet do-able - but for a vast majority of situations this would be a bad approach (IMHO). The data have to be structured in such a way they will occupy one continuous memory block, and depending on the size of the data block this in itself may be impractical or impossible. Also, you'd need a good amount of error checking or you'd simply have to "trust" that nothing could ever go wrong in your binary file.
So, all in all, I'd say go with #1, but spend time tuning your file read/write proceedures to be efficient. Sometimes a lexer (gnu flex) is good for this, but often times it is also overkill and a well written series of if(strncmp(...)) statements will be better*.
Bear in mind though, this is from another amateur. I c ode for fun - and some of my code has found use - but it is far from my day job.
edit: *note - that is a C example, and flex library is easily used in C. I'd be surprised if there are not perl bindings for flex, but I very rarely use perl. As an after thought, I'd be surprised if flex is even all that useful in perl, given perl's built-in regex abilites. After-after-thought, I would not be surprised if perl itself were built on some version of flex.
edit2: also, I doubt environment variables would be a good way to go. That seems to require more system calls and more overhead than just reading from a config file. Environment variables are a handy way for several programs to be able to access/change the same setting - but for a single program they don't make much sense to me.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-07-01 15:34:43)

Best practice for Active Directory User Templates regarding Distribution Lists

Hello All
I am looking to implement Active Directory User templates for each department in the company to make the process of creating user accounts for new employees easier. Currently when a user is created a current user's Active directory account is copied, but
this has led to problems with new employees being added to groups which they should not be a part of.
I have attempted to implement this in the past but ran into an issue regarding Distribution Lists. I would like to set up template users with all group memberships that are needed for the department, including distribution lists. Previously I set this up
but received complaints from users who would send e-mail to distribution lists the template accounts were members of.
When sending an e-mail to the distribution list with a member template user, users received an error because the template account does not have an e-mail address.
What is the best practice regarding template user accounts as it pertains to distribution lists? It seems like I will have to create a mailbox for each template user but I can't help but feel there is a better way to avoid this problem. If a mailbox is created
for each template user, it will prevent the error messages users were receiving, but messages will simply build up in these mailboxes. I could set a rule for each one that deletes messages, but again I feel like there is a better way which I haven't thought
of.
Has anyone come up with a better method of doing this?
Thank you

You can just add arbitrary email (not a mailbox) to all your templates and it should solve the problem with errors when sending emails to distribution lists.
If you want to further simplify your user creation process you can have a look at Adaxes (consider it's a third-party app). If you want to use templates, it gives you a slightly better way to do that (http://www.adaxes.com/tutorials_WebInterfaceCustomization_AllowUsingTemplatesForUserCreation.htm)
and it also can automatically perform tasks such as mailbox creation for newly created users (http://www.adaxes.com/tutorials_AutomatingDailyTasks_AutomateExchangeMailboxesCreationForNewUsers.htm).
Alternatively you can abandon templates at all and use customizable condition-based rules to automatically perform all the needed tasks on user creation such as OU allocation, group membership assignment, mailbox creation, home folder creation, etc. based on
the factors you predefine for them.

Captivate 4.0 - Need best practice tips on panning, templates, resolution, etc.

Hi all,
Been searching all over in case someone has already published Best Practices for Captivate 4.0 (particularly the new/enhanced features), but coming up empty. My client's in house graphics person has been tasked with creating a template for us to use for a number of software simulations. He's running in to these challenges:
- Our SWF needs to be 800 x 600 and he created the template for this size, but the app won't fit.
- He's found the panning feature to produce very choppy, disappointing results. Tips?
- His suggestion is we capture at 1024 x 768, then resize to 800 x 600, then copy/paste the slides into his 800 x 600 template. Would we be better off recreating the template at 1024 x 768 and not resizing until the final output is generated for each tutorial? His concern is that our template will then become larger, making it harder for us to send back and forth as changes are made, etc.
Any other suggestions for how to deal with the resolution issue, how best to take advantage of templates, etc.?
Thanks,
Katie Carver
Senior Technical Writer
Docs-to-You, LLC

Hi there
In my own opinion, Panning is a nice attempt, but just doesn't cut the mustard. It's nowhere near as good as the panning one sees with Camtasia Studio.
I might suggest combining Camtasia with Captivate for the ultimate development set. There are aspects Captivate shines in when compared with Camtasia, and there are aspects Camtasia shines in when compared with Captivate. So I say if you can afford it, go for it!
Now I know that both packages are sort of pricey and not everyone can afford both. In that case you might want to try Jing, which is free to use. I've not looked very deeply at it, but it may offer some of what Camtasia does. You could then use that for your panning and enhance Captivate that way.
Cheers... Rick
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