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What are the tools you use to troubleshoot network issues?
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William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
A Cisco interviewer will ask you about the tools you use to manage the network to confirm your qualifications and to also understand if the tools you prefer are the same ones the Cisco team currently uses. It is advisable to thoroughly research the organization before the interview to understand how they manage their network environment. The network management tools may be mentioned in the job description or on Cisco's website. You can also learn about this by speaking with current and former Cisco employees of the company's network operations team.
William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
"The tools I use to troubleshoot and manage a network are a combination of command-line utilities and commercially available network management suites. The command-line utilities include Ping to check the speed of connections, Tracert, a utility that lists the probable hops to a destination address, Ipconfig which reports the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, subnets, and default gateways, Netstat, which displays active connections, and Nslookup, a tool that gives you DNS server diagnostics. I also prefer commercial network management suites, including SolarWinds Port Scanner, N-able RMM, Paessler Network Troubleshooting, and Wireshark."
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