Common Sonus SBC 1000/2000 Troubleshooting Tips

11th of September, 2018 / / No Comments

If you regularly work with Sonus 1000/2000 session boarder controllers, you may often be sat there scratching your head as to why a simple inbound call from ISDN to Skype for Business won’t ring your test handset.
Before you go and make yourself another cup of coffee and spin up LX, here’s a list of common issues I frequently encounter.
ISDN Channels
Alright, so you’ve set up your signalling groups, your transformation tables are a thing of beauty and your ISDN cables are connected and green.… [Keep reading] “Common Sonus SBC 1000/2000 Troubleshooting Tips”

Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell

10th of September, 2018 / / No Comments

Introduction

SailPoint recently made available in BETA their new Search functionality. There’s some great documentation around using the Search functions through the IdentityNow Portal on Compass^. Specifically;

^ Compass Access Required

Each of those articles are great, but they are centered around performing the search via the Portal.  For some of my needs, I need to do it via the API and that’s what I’ll cover in this post.… [Keep reading] “Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell”

Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell

10th of September, 2018 / / No Comments 
Update: Oct 2019. Searching Identities can be easily performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

Introduction

SailPoint recently made available in BETA their new Search functionality. There’s some great documentation around using the Search functions through the IdentityNow Portal on Compass^. Specifically;

^ Compass Access Required
Each of those articles are great, but they are centered around performing the search via the Portal. … [Keep reading] “Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell”

Creating custom Deep Learning models with AWS SageMaker

6th of September, 2018 / / 1 Comment

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This blog will cover how to use SageMaker, and I’ve included the code from my GitHub, https://github.com/Steve–Hunter/DeepLens-Safety-Helmet.

1 What is AWS SageMaker?

AWS (Amazon Web Services) SageMaker is “a fully managed machine learning service. With Amazon SageMaker, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train machine learning models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment.” (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/whatis.html). In other words, SageMaker gives you a one-stop-shop to get your Deep Learning models going, in a relatively friction-less way.… [Keep reading] “Creating custom Deep Learning models with AWS SageMaker”

Azure Application Gateway WAF tuning

5th of September, 2018 / / 3 Comments

The Azure Application Gateway has a Web Application Firewall (WAF) capability that can be enabled on the gateway. The WAF will use the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set 3.0 by default and there is an option to use CRS 2.2.9.
CRS 3.0 offers reduced occurrences of false positives over 2.2.9 by default. However, there may still be times when you need to tune your WAF rule sets to avoid false positives in your site.

Blocked access to the site

The Azure WAF filters all incoming requests to the servers in the backend of the Application Gateway.… [Keep reading] “Azure Application Gateway WAF tuning”

Creating an Enterprise-Wide Cloud Strategy – Considerations & Benefits

4th of September, 2018 / / No Comments

What is a strategy?

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“a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim”. A Strategy involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilising limited resources to execute the actions.

A good Cloud Strategy is…

  • Specific
  • Timely
  • Prioritised
  • Actionable
  • Tailored

Note – A strategy is different to organisations requirements, which can change over a period of time.

Best practice is to define your strategy is to maximise the benefits you achieve.… [Keep reading] “Creating an Enterprise-Wide Cloud Strategy – Considerations & Benefits”

Creating an Enterprise-Wide Cloud Strategy – Considerations & Benefits

4th of September, 2018 / / No Comments

What is a strategy?

Click-cloud-icon
“a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim”. A Strategy involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilising limited resources to execute the actions.
A good Cloud Strategy is…

  • Specific
  • Timely
  • Prioritised
  • Actionable
  • Tailored

Note – A strategy is different to organisations requirements, which can change over a period of time.
Best practice is to define your strategy is to maximise the benefits you achieve.… [Keep reading] “Creating an Enterprise-Wide Cloud Strategy – Considerations & Benefits”

Microsoft Azure Consumption Insights with Power BI

4th of September, 2018 / / No Comments

In a recent engagement I was tasked to assess the Azure consumption for a customer, they have been exceeding their forecasted budget for last several months. In a short timeframe I had to make sense out of the recon files provided via the Azure Enterprise Portal and present that in a decision-making format that is business understandable and easy to consume. To understand and optimise the cost, it is important to identify and understand where the cost originated, i.e.… [Keep reading] “Microsoft Azure Consumption Insights with Power BI”

Disk Space Reporting through Lamba Functions- Windows servers

4th of September, 2018 / / No Comments

Solution Objective:

The solution provides detailed report related to hard disk space for all the Windows Ec2 instances in the AWS environment.

Requirements:

Mentioned below are the requirements the solution should be able to fulfil.

  • Gather information related to all mount points in all the Windows EC2 instances in the environment.
  • Able to generate cumulative report based on all instances in the environment.

3. Assumptions:

The following assumptions are considered

  • All the EC2 instances have SSM agent installed.
… [Keep reading] “Disk Space Reporting through Lamba Functions- Windows servers”

Office 365 URLs and IP address updates for firewall and proxy configuration, using Flow and Azure Automation

3rd of September, 2018 / / No Comments

tl;dr

To use Microsoft Office 365, an organisation must allow traffic to [and sometimes from] the respective cloud services via the internet on specific ports and protocols to various URLs and/or IP addresses, or if you meet the requirements via Azure ExpressRoute.… [Keep reading] “Office 365 URLs and IP address updates for firewall and proxy configuration, using Flow and Azure Automation”