The next time you step onto an aircraft to go to any conference, business
trip or holiday you make sure that the pilots are certified for 747/757/767
or whatever. The principles are all the same but the cheaper airlines will
always hope they can employee someone from 747's to fly 767's cause it all
starts with seven don't it. You buy a horse for a course and your lucky if
it can do two races in the same day. Happy next business trip/holiday
etc..etc.
Karl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim McDowell"
To:
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:03 AM
Subject: What's wrong with ccie today [7:13160]
> Doggone those CCIEs. Shame on them for not knowing UNIX startup scripts.
I
> guess I'll be a step ahead of them if I ever get my CCIE. :)
>
>
>
> What's wrong with CCIEs today? I know that I am making a general
> assumptions; however,this is the second time that it has happend to the
> company that I work for. We have several tacacs servers that use to
> authenticate users. These tacacs servers are running on a combination of
> Linux and Solaris platforms. While I was away at the Networker
> Conference, one of our tacacs servers (solaris) die due to hardware
> failure and the amazingly the tacacs process on the Linux die. Because
> of this, everyone has to login to the routers and switches via local
> account. We hire these CCIEs to maintain the network while I am away for
> a few weeks. None of these CCIEs have any background with tacacs servers
> running on Unix platforms. As to our problems, the simple to do is just
> to restart the tacacs process byfirst: "killall tac_plus" and second
> "/usr/sbin/tac_plus -C /etc/tacacs/tac_plus.cfg" but these CCIEs guys
> have absolutely no clues. Furthermore, they don't even know how to use
> editing in Unix (i.e vi or emacs) and ended up screwing up my tacacs
> configuration files. We have a few employees that need tacacs account
> but these CCIEs guys have no clues how to addnew users to a configuration
> file which if anyone has done tacacs on the unix platform know that you
> just modify the configuration file tac_plus.conf and restart tacacs
> process. These CCIE guys say that they come from a windows environment
> so they don't have too much with Unix platforms. I also notice that a
> lot of CCIEs these days lack the Unix skills that are required for the
> Service Providers environment. Most don't even know how to tunnel
> X-application through Secure Shell (SSH). I still remember those days
> when Cisco Engineers are very well verse in both unix and routers
> skills. I long for those days again. Comments anyone?
>
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