Ecstasy of success in the radiance of sustainability

We value with pride all our success but more we count is the continuum of our success. Since the inception ipsr were journeying down the road of success and now success is journeying into each and every pulse of ipsrian activities. It is not weighted as a matter of chance that happen between sunrise and sunset it is the product of dedication, commitment and smart work culture.

Here are few of our aspirants over flown with joy of success 

“I work at the Saudi Telecomm Company as the Senior System Engineer with 8 yrs of experience. Basically from Jordan, I came to India, just to do RHCSS. This is my first time to Kerala, “God’s Own Country”, and I am very much impressed. I was also happy to achieve full score for EX 423. I am very much satisfied and I enjoyed studying at IPSR. The facilities available at the center were good and the hospitality was excellent. Thanks to IPSR for arranging Diwali at Green Berg, Idukki. Special thanks to Mr. Maurice and Mr. Mojan”

Samer Ali Haddad, RHCSS

I had been working as a freelancer in Web Hosting for the past 5 years. I felt a strong desire to study Linux. I searched in Google and the first option I got was IPSR. I started with RHCE and soon after my certification I started RHCSS. The class was very good as well as the structure. Thanks to IPSR for helping me a lot, keep it up!!

Subhash K E

“I am a Consultant at Gulf Business Machine, GBM, with 9 yrs of experience, Dubai. I liked the way IPSR scheduled everything. The classes and the center facilities were good. Thanks to IPSR!”

Sajin Vachery

“I have more than 1.5 yrs of experience in Linux. I was working with Geojith, PNB. I started my career with RHCE but later I decided to do RHCSS also. First of all let me say that I was so happy to achieve full score for EX 423. Another point is that soon after my course I started to get placement assistance too. I am very much confident that I shall become an RHCSS and I wish IPSR best of luck…”

Nikhil Narayanan 

“After my BCA, I decided to go for Linux. After my certification, I got placed at Green Info Solutions as a System Admin with 1.5 yrs of experience. Then I thought I need to do RHCSS also. So I opted IPSR itself. The classes are good and the most cheerful moment was when I achieved full score for EX 423. Thanks IPSR!”

Jebin Jacob Luke

“I completed my BTech from SCET, Thrissur. I am currently working at Technopark, Tvm. I decided to do RHCSS at IPSR. The facilities are good as well as the teaching. The  faculty is very much helpful. The labs are also good”

Dilip K

The entire crew of ipsr wishes our aspirants a brilliant career

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Network Administration Tips

Linux system administration has a lead role in the domain of Information Technology. To work as a successful system administrator one should know installing and configuring server to protecting the filesystem from crackers.  A system administrator should have knowledge of current advancement in technology. When a new technology comes, such as Linux Virtualization, they need to know how to apply the same.

To begin this year, here are some basic system administration tips that may be useful to protect your computer security, to provide back up for the entire hard disk, manage basic trouble shooting problems etc.  Network administration is not a difficult task until it is managed properly. 

 

Data loss is the major problem faced by system admins. There are many ways to back up data. “dd command” is one such way.  With this “dd command” one can provide back up for the entire hard disk or can create image of the hard disk. If server is accessed simultaneously from multiple sources its better to provide back ups for the server data and manage the resources so that it won’t affect its performance.

“rsync” is another command which is used to synchronize files and directories from source to destination.

RPM (Red Hat Package Manger) command is used for installing, upgrading, listing, querying, checking, and uninstalling RPM packages on Linux system. RPM checks whether system suits the software in RPM package and finds out the location and install it in the system and adds software into database of installed RPM packages.

A professional system administrator needs to know a number of tasks associated with networking and providing services to users.  Here is a handy list of  about 50 tutorials which might help you with common system admin tasks and teach some tips and tricks

A Definite Job-winner - The Why hire you question?

Practice your why-hire-me pitch well in advance and you can avoid a lot of sweat during your interview. This great tip from LifeHacker tells you how.

CCIE R&S Documentation Usage - Help Guide for CCIE Beginners

So today I am just trying to help the CCIE beginners to browse Documentation more effectively. In my opinion, only if you are very familiar and confident in doc usage, can you win in lab at first attempt. As you know even if you skip one task in a subsection you will lose marks for the entire subsection.

My study method was like this (I used almost all well known materials for CCIE ). CBT > COD > Cisco Press Books > Blog > Cisco DOC among all DOC is most accurate and very useful for Exam and is a Live Problem solver!! For Exam you have to notice where exactly each blueprint topic is situated in DOC. If you try to study things directly from Doc you will automatically become familiar with it. My own way to browse documentation is like this, for routing topics (I will explain way to switch topics later).
This is the starting of Documentation
http://cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.htmlProducts > Cisco IOS and NX-OS Software > Cisco IOS > Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 Family > Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.4 T. (click)here you will get a new page. Two Main and Important link here is "Configuration Guides" & "Command References". Configuration_guide explain things in detail with appropriate examples (very good stuff). We can browse Command_References with topic wise commands, here also you can find some example configurations.

Blue print topics mainly on
IPCisco IOS IP Addressing Services Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS IP Application Services Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS IP Multicast Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS IP Routing Protocols Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS IPv6 Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T

Network Management
Cisco IOS IP SLAs Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS Network Management Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T

QoS
Cisco IOS Quality of Service Solutions Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T

Security and VPN
Cisco IOS Security Configuration Guide: Securing the Data Plane, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS Security Configuration Guide: Securing User Services, Release 12.4T

WAN
Cisco IOS Wide-Area Networking Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
You can open all these in various tabs and search for Blueprint topics. Later I will help you to find out blueprint topics from these pages.

Reneesh A
CCIE Faculty
IPSR Calicut

10 Questions for Self Reflection - Interview Questions

What do you do to build, manage and maintain your network?
If I Google you, what will I find?
What do you do to stay focused?
What do you do to stay relevant?
What innovative solutions have you created?
Walk me through a time when you administered change.
What important problems or questions do you see facing our industry? Your occupation?
What do you do to expose yourself to new ideas and new thinking on a regular basis?
What big mistake have you made recently and what did you learn from it?
What matters to you? What are you passionate about? What gets you up in the morning or keeps you awake at night?

Premium Group - A Great Career Opportunity

IPSR Premium Group is a great career opportunity for those who are on the job hunt. The Premium Group is a Special Recruitment Service which makes sure that your resume reaches plum job opportunities. For freshers this service will be charged at Rs. 750/- and for the experienced the charges will be a moderate Rs.1500/-.
This service ensures that you will get notified of exclusive job opportunties even where there are only 1 or 2 openings. We will find you a custom job depending upn your special requirements like areas of expertise than just land any job. Surely recruitment services can't get any better than that!
Within a short period of starting this service we have already placed Nibin V M at Ginusys.
To avail this service contact Georgy at 98958 68177.

10 Important Interview Questions

IPSR students who are undergoing the recruitment process might benefit from Mary Ann Gauthier's article where she says that you have to be ready with answers to these following questions before a job interview.
Tell me about yourself
Why should we hire you?
What is your worst characteristic?
Where do you want to be five years from now?
Why did you leave your last job?
Tell me a problem you had and how you solved it
Have you had difficulties getting along with supervisors or coworkers?
How do you deal with stress on the job?
What salary do you want for this job?
Do you have questions for me?
To read the full article click here...

Great demand for RHCE Certified

The demand for RHCEs has reached an all time high. For those of you who are tired of blaming Recession and willing to make a constructive change, maybe you need to do an RHCE course. IPSR placed 30+ RHCEs in the current month and have 50+ vacancies for the coming month.
Go grab that job!

RHCE, RHCSS Schedules at IPSR for the last week of May
94th RHCE Bootcamp at Kochi North (starting 25th May)
14th RHCSS Bootcamp at Kochi North (starting 27th May)

To get more details of upcoming boot camps, send us a message or talk to our Course Director at +91 94472 94635 or +91 94471 69776.

RHCE, RHCSS is Recession Proof

RHCE and RHCSS are definitely recessionproof international certiifications. At least, that is what IPSR Career Centre statistics reveal. In the last three months, out of the entire recruitment that IPSR Career centre generated, a plum 55% placements were realised by those with RHCE, RHCSS Certified. Read More ...

Those of you who still have doubts could read the highlights of the latest IDC MarketScape Report which shows that Redhat Certifications are really the best.

The 92nd RHCE Bootcamp at IPSR starts on May 4th at IPSR Kochi North Centre. For more details talk to our Course Director at +91 94472 94635 or +91 94471 69776.

Live Problem and Solution

Yesterday one of my old students now working in Bangalore called me for a help. The problem is this. He needs to backup the configuration of a voice gateway router situated in UK to the PC in Bangalore. He started TFTP server in his PC accessed the router via telnet. While issuing the “copy running-config tftp” he got the error message says router 'can’t access the tftp server.'

See the mailed result

2851BR5A_01#copy running-config tftp:Address or name of remote host []? 25.91.170.125Destination filename [2851br5a_01-confg]?Writing 2851br5a_01-confg%Error writing tftp://10.91.170.157/2851br5a_01-confg

Here the problem is in his path to TFTP server there may some firewalls blocking his TFTP traffic. Most of firewalls will block TFTP traffic (port 69) but allow FTP traffic. To confirm the problem we can traceroute to the TFTP port for that issue the command from privilege mode.

2851BR5A_01#traceroute 25.91.170.125 port 69

Traceroute result of TFTP

2851BR5A_01#traceroute 25.91.170.125 port 69
Type escape sequence to abort.Tracing the route to 25.91.170.125
1 25.255.120.19 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 2 25.255.127.75 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 3 25.216.58.89 4 msec 0 msec 0 msec 4 25.212.37.93 204 msec 204 msec 200 msec
*
*

Traceroute result of ftp

2851BR5A_01#traceroute 25.91.170.125 port 20
Type escape sequence to abort.Tracing the route to 25.91.170.125
1 25.255.120.19 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 2 25.255.127.75 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 3 25.216.58.89 4 msec 0 msec 0 msec 4 25.212.37.93 204 msec 204 msec 200 msec 5 25.212.37.94 244 msec 296 msec 204 msec 6 25.91.160.5 296 msec 232 msec 296 msec 7 25.91.170.125 264 msec 348 msec 312 msec

(NOTE here tftp traffic is being dropped while ftp traffic is permitted by firewalls)


If we got message form the same ip like “25.91.170.125 264 msec 348 msec 312 msec” there is no filtration. But in this case the problem is with firewall.

The solution

There may be many solutions to this problem. Some solutions came into my mind I told him.

call his top level administrator and tell him to allow his TFPT traffic. (its not a good solutions since TFTP is not a secure protocol unlike FTP)
Use a FTP server instead of TFTP server
Use a TFTP server in the same LAN of the voice gateway or before the firewall.
Back up the Startup configuration file from NVRAM to Flash memory of the same router.

Solution 1 &3 doesn’t need much explanation

Explanation of solution 2

Down load and install a ftp server in local LAN in Chennai. Create one user in ftp application for example username is cisco with password cisco

In router create the same ftp user using the command

ip ftp username ciscoip ftp password 0 cisco

then issue the command “copy running-config ftp”
OR “copy running-config ftp://cisco:cisco@10.91.170.157/”

Explanation solution 4
If we have enough flash size we can backup configuration in flash itself. In copy command if we didn’t specify destination location the default location is in flash.
We can use command “copy run configbackup” for this solution.
He used the second solution and now he using ftp instead of TFTP. Remember even if TFTP is faster than FTP its not secure.


Reneesh A
CICSO Faculty
IPSR Kochi

Importance of International IT Certifications

According to a McKinsey report, the Indian IT industry will need an additional 1.1 million IT professionals by 2008, and the supply according to current trends will be just 865,000. So there is a potential shortfall of 235,000 professionals by 2008 if the current trends continue. It is not because that this shortage is going to happen as per the current trends just because enough manpower is short in our country but in fact it is due to the simple reason that this isn't enough 'competent' manpower as per the industry requirements and standards. Out of the many possible solutions to overcome this problem, getting certified from an appropriate agencies with respect to a particular technology or product would definitely be an important remedy. Another important fact is that the certification programme are not at all reserved for science graduates. It is evidently so because the industry has started seeing the benefits of deployment of IT as an enterprise level scale and this is transforming into demand for professionals with a blend of IT and business skills. Where at this high pace of competition one cannot distinguish from the other as far as the IT industry is concerned . Hence individuals with backgrounds of B.Com, BA, MBA etc. can too find highly rewarding careers through appropriate certification according to their aptitude and ability. Almost all the IT certification programs, whether it be vendor specific or vendor neutral are formulated and implemented like Open University programs and does not require any formal explicit qualifications. This really allows and facilitates entry for all those who have the right aptitude but could not have a formal education in engineering or computer science. The essence of certification programs is in fact a testing process where the candidate is required to undergo an examination at the designated test center. There are two methods adopted for testing namely online testing and offline testing. Online Testing: This is the popular method of testing for International Certification practice world over. The candidate will have to approach an authorised testing center near to his/her locality or convenient to him/her and undergo the testing process online which essentially means an examination through the Internet. Popular online examinations are CCIE, CCIP, CCNP, CCNA, MCSE, MCSA, MCP, A+, N+, SCLP …….. etc. Test centers of Thomson Prometric and Pearson Vue are the leading testing centers for International Certifications program, which are very popular in India. Offline Testing: In this method of testing, the examinations would be conducted at a designated test center but would not be in the online method. The candidate will be provided a problem scenario and he will be required to rectify the problem on-site, in front of a competent authority. This is often thought to be more credible since it's a live hands-on testing of skills of the candidate. The most renowned and popular offline International certification that exists today is the RHCE(Red Hat Certified Engineer) and RHCT(Red Hat Certified Technician). These renowned certifications can be taken at an authorized training partner of Red Hat. The examinations are directly supervised and evaluated by a Red Hat examiner. More details can be had from http://www.in.redhat.com/. Coming to the point of which certification is to whom is a matter which is often delicate and most often depends on one's own potential and aptitude

Studies have shown that certified individuals realize many benefits. Among them are the following

Increased opportunities on the job These opportunities range from salary and bonus increases to project involvement and promotion. Increased breadth of knowledge Certification is a catalyst for learning new technologies in a structured and comprehensive way. Increased value to the organization Organizations with 25 percent or more of their staff certified have been shown to deploy projects on time and within budget more often, rely less on external support, have less downtime, and have higher user satisfaction with their IT staff.

According to www.certcities.com, the Hottest ITCertifications Across the Globe - 2006 are as follows:

1.RHCE ( Redhat Certified Engineer) 2.MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist: SQL & .NET) 3.MCA ( Microsoft Certified Architect) 4. a. CCSP (Cisco Certified Security Professional) b. PMP ( Project Management Professional) 5.CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert) 6.CCNP Cisco Certified Networking Professional) 7.MCSE ( Microsoft Certified System Engineer - Security) 8.SSCP ( System Security Certified Practitioner) 9.LPIC 2 ( Linux Professional Institute Certification)

IPSR as a proven training and corporate services provider ,is in the constant efforts to conduct programmes that enable to bridge this knowledge gap. As pointed our earlier, International Certification programmes cater this need and we are imparting this through our training division. This division runs International Certification Programmes-Redhat,Microsoft,Cisco and Sun Networks. Over the years we have produced excellent talent pool who are employed in organizations like Oracle,Cisco,Redhat,Wipro Technologies,Infosys Technologies to name a few. This speaks of the quality standards kept by us in imparting training services. Our alumni spans across Asia,the US and the Middle East. We have been consistently achieving above 95 percentage score for RHCE and CCNA Certification Exams. Our Core expertise focuses on RHCE, RHCA, CCNA and MCSE International Certification Exams. South Indian and Kerala Based IT opportunities and placement drives Visit the Career Center Link of this site www.ipsr.org/placements Facts & Figures speaks for us 1 out of every 10 RHCE in South ASIA is an IPSRian 1 out of every 25 RHCE in the world is an IPSRian Maximum number of Red Hat Cerified engineers with 100% score 15 member Red Hat certified faculty crew to ensure high quality training and passrate Consistent pass rate of 95 - 100% in RHCE exams More than 95 pass rate for RHCE whereas the global passrate is 48% 100% Pass & Score for CCNA exams Winner of red Hat GLS National Awards for the year 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007 We welcome your feedback. Mail your queries to training@ipsrsolutions.com