Hi Dan We're gonna make significant updates to the security pods very soon, which will include rebuilding some of our VMs to increase their speed and improve user experience.
Apologies for any inconvenience. Regards, -- Piotr Kaluzny CCIE #25665 (Security), CCSP, CCNP Sr. Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc. URL: http://www.IPexpert.com On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Dan Gericke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm not sure if I'm the only one that constantly has issues with the pods > or if I'm the only one complaining about it, but once again I had issues > today. Yesterday it took me almost 1.5 hours to get pod 120 to a point > where I could log into the PC, and AD servers. Sometime before the 1.5 > hour mark I can actually RDP to them, but it takes quite a while before I > can actually click anything. > > Today, I'm doing Section 4, the ISE labs on pod 121. To me, the ISE is > extremely slow. I'm at the 2 hour mark right now, and I've barely created > the certificate in Lab 1. > It took nearly an hour for me to even be able to SSH into the ISE box(That > includes reverting the pod, then loading the configs, then waiting), which > is ridiculous to begin with. But after you update the domain name, you > have to wait for the services to start. I started a timer after the last > service stopped(which I estimated took almost 20 minutes), and it took 17 > minutes to start all the services again. Then as soon as you go into the > GUI to create the certificate, it has to restart the services again. I'm > now at almost 30 minutes of waiting, and I can finally log into the GUI > again. > > When I'm waiting, I wait on the application server process: > ISE Database listener is running, PID: 12356 > ISE Database is running, number of processes: 27 > ISE Application Server is still initializing. > ISE M&T Session Database is running, PID: 13178 > ISE M&T Log Collector is running, PID: 14385 > ISE M&T Log Processor is running, PID: 14588 > ISE M&T Alert Process is running, PID: 14228 > % WARNING: ISE DISK SIZE NOT LARGE ENOUGH FOR PRODUCTION USE > % RECOMMENDED DISK SIZE: 200 GB, CURRENT DISK SIZE: 64 GB > > Even after it starts, the web gui is anything but fast. I often have to > reload the page or wait 1-2 minutes+ for it to load. > > Are any of you also experiencing this kind of thing when you are working > on ISE labs? It seems to me that whatever VM server is being used, it's > excessively choking. It should not, by any means, take this long to > initialize things. This issue turns into a ton of wasted lab time, so its > very frustrating. > > Here's a sample of my ping statistics to the ISE box. > --- pod121ise.proctorlabs.com ping statistics --- > 393 packets transmitted, 393 packets received, 0.0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 362.610/621.341/3963.285/453.191 ms > > > By the way, I installed my copy of ISE on vmware just now, and went to > create the self signed certificate. It took my VM all of 1 minute and 30 > seconds to restart the services fully. > Thanks for any feedback. > -Dan > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out > www.PlatinumPlacement.com >
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