How to Reset a YeaLink Admin Password back to factory - Carlo Zakarian

 Some days I get calls for IT consulting services on a last-minutes notice, those entail things like “Internet is down”, other times its issues with devices that “worked” fine all last week, but suddenly today it’s not.

On this particular day I received a frantic call from a new client at an accounting firm that had 50 Yealink VoIP phones dropping calls randomly.  As I tried to enter the Yealink “Advanced Menu” to collect traffic and logs, we were presented with “Incorrect Password.”  We tried every password the office knew of and nothing seemed to work.

 

After spending several hours trying to sort out the password issue, it occurred to me that I just try the good old “Factory Default Password Reset.”   After Performing that task, I went into the “Advanced Menu” and entered the default password of “admin” but yet again I was presented with “Incorrect Password.”   I tried a few more times using uppercase and lowercase variations, and even tried well-known passwords like six zeros and the famous “password.”

 

After multiple searches and several failed attempts, I decided on a different approach to re-cement the “Factory Default Password” by using a locally hosted server and a configuration file.

 

Follow along with me and watch how I reset a YeaLink VoIP phone to factory default password.  In this video installment series, I will first reset the Yealink VoIP password, in a follow-up video I will go through the steps to hunt down those dropped calls and how I solved them.

Spend a bit of Time with Tony and Mike

 I thought i would try something new.

Tony Fortunato (www.thetechfirm.com) and Mike Pennachi (www.nps-llc.com) have a sit down and chat about various topics. 

Let us know if you would like us to spend more time on anything specific and we'll see what we can do.

I'm not a big fan of videos longer than 10 minutes and ideally try to keep mine around 5 minutes or less. 

In this case, I made a compromise and added time codes in the YouTube video description so you can jump around, or just hit play and have us on in the background while you have your morning tea or coffee and get set up for the day.

Basic configurations on Cisco ASA Firewall - Part 2 (thenetworkdna)

 

Basic configurations on Cisco ASA Firewall - Part 2

As a part of the understanding on the basics of Cisco ASA firewalls, these are some of the commands used to configure Cisco ASA firewall in real scenario.

Who Is Axellio?

 

The guys at Network DataPedia asked me, “Who is Axellio?” So here is a brief overview. Axellio Inc. is an innovator in high-speed, no-loss network traffic capture, distribution, and analysis. Spun-out from X-IO Technologies in 2018 and with an intellectual pedigree extending to Digital Equipment Corporation and Seagate Technology, Axellio has focused its 20-year legacy of innovation and expertise in providing high-speed enterprise data capture and storage platforms. Addressing network and security operations of defense, intelligence, and commercial enterprise markets, Axellio delivers solutions that combine common off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware with its open source, software-based solution to provide the most comprehensive and economical monitoring and analysis solutions.  Axellio is a US owned, small business with multiple contracts with the US Department of Defense. We also have civilian enterprise-based cybersecurity solutions as well.

Here is a little bit more involved summary of the Axellio solution. Axellio is a data intelligence solution that focusses on streaming and storage of real-time, high-speed data analytics. Axellio’s mission is to control data overload in time-series analysis systems. We have developed a unique software-based solution that simultaneously captures, stores, analyzes, and distributes any streaming data from 1 Gbps to far exceeding 200 Gbps.

The unique storage software is designed for continuous, simultaneous write-to-disk and read-off-disk sustained without impacting read or write performance, access latency, or throughput.

Targeting high-intensive data analytics applications in cybersecurity, electronic warfare, ISR, and AI-powered applications, Axellio’s Xpress Platform and solutions improve the performance and accuracy of your existing analytical systems, while adding detail for on-demand and historical analysis. The DVR-like capabilities can be applied to any time series data, scaling to address the most demanding data analytics in any form factor.

The Axellio Xpress Platform Delivers Groundbreaking Performance

Here is a basic diagram of the Axellio Xpress Platform.

Key benefits of the solution include:

• Any Speed – Scalable speed and processing power that keeps up with real-time capture, processing, and on-demand, forensic analysis

• Anywhere – Software-based, scalable, and flexible architecture for deployment in cloud, virtual, and physical environments -customized for your mission

• Anytime – Data analysis with the latest insights and learning anytime, even weeks after an event happened – empowering learning and superior reconnaissance

• Affordable – Based on the latest storage technology combined with COTS hardware to keep scale affordable – analyze more of your data for accelerated ROI and better visibility

Axellio Delivers A New Approach to High-Performance Data Analytics

The Axellio Xpress Platform delivers groundbreaking performance that integrates via open APIs with your existing analysis systems to improve the analysis performance, accuracy, and detail. The solution is protocol agnostic, using open APIs to control both content and speed of the data to ensure your analysis applications are not overwhelmed. The Axellio solution is hardware agnostic using COTS hardware – to monitor more of your data affordably.

There are two distinct solutions that are part of the Axellio platform – PacketXpress®  and SensorXpressTM. This allows the Axellio Xpress platform to help customers in two distinct areas – cybersecurity and radio frequency (RF).

PacketXpress fortifies your network cybersecurity solution

Key features include:  packet capture, distribution, and analysis that improves the performance, accuracy, and depth of your real-time and forensic analysis:

• Monitor more traffic economically for complete visibility

• Detect sophisticated attacks reliably and prevent missed events under high traffic load

• Analyze, triage, and resolve incidents with complete event details

• Validate countermeasures with actual event traffic before deployment

SensorXpress optimizes radio frequency monitoring

Extend your time monitoring the electromagnetic spectrum at the widest instantaneous bandwidth with the following features:

• Frequency, protocol, and hardware agnostic

• Record more spectrum for longer time periods

• Collect and store more spectrum data for post-mission analytics

• Dense form factors for disconnected operation during forward tactical missions

While these two solutions focus on packet and I/Q data, the Xpress Platform can handle any type of time series data:  packet, RF, video, voice, or log files.

If you want to accelerate into the data fast lane using Axellio’s XpressWay (the Axellio Xpress Platform) to quickly capture, manage, and understand YOUR data, more information is available here. Or if you have questions, reach out to Axellio and we can show you exactly how to optimize your monitoring and analysis solutions.

Fibre cutover and site walkthrough

 I have worked on countless network builds in my career and occasionally prefer to perform a ‘walk through’.

For those that haven’t been through this process, there is always something that isn’t done the way you feel it should be. It could be that a network drop is in the wrong spot, or not labelled, an access point isn’t where you asked it to be installed, incorrect number of cables pulled to a location, etc…

The point is that if you catch it early enough, it isn’t a big deal to fix.

Then there are all those requests or issues you identified that should be followed up on to ensure it was done and it was done the way you had requested.

In this video, I was going to my favorite construction site to cut them over from a temporary wireless internet connection to a fibre one and thought why not go for a walk and check on things.