This will be a running list of useful sites and various links to tidbits I come across and find useful. Sites Learn/test regular expressions (regex). https://regex101.com/ Test Sed commands/filtering https://sed.js.org/ Generate Cron strings https://crontab.guru Software Working with APIs. Makes building urls and testing basic strings much simpler. Also will show you code output for several
Read MoreSomething I just came across recently is I’ve had to switch to using “Machine” credentials with MikroTik RouterOS v7 devices instead of “network” credential types. I’m not 100% sure why this is yet, but something that will maybe help someone facing the same issue. Honestly I don’t have any v6 routers left to check this
Read MoreGetting Started In Part 1 we discussed why git for network engineers. In this part of the series we will start discussin how to start using git and creating your first repository. The first thing would be to install git. This process varies by platform, but there are instructions right on the git website for
Read MoreTransitioning from a traditional network engineer to an automation engineer can come with a steep learning curve. Terms like git, merge, squash, branch, and rebase can be daunting. While there are many “getting started” tutorials out there for git, it feels like most of them are geared toward programmers and those who have team members
Read MoreWhen using Palo Alto Prisma Access for users or Remote networks, Palo Alto will sometimes need to change/add/delete IP addresses from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) backend. This normally happens during upgrades or when there is a large increase or decrease in the number of users/sites connected to your Prisma Environment. If using on-premise panorama
Read MoreI have created playbooks for Ansible Network Device Backups. It is important to keep your device configurations backed up in the event of a hardware failure. Check out my GitHub for these Ansible playbooks. Some folks are starting to use Git for device backups as it provides diffs and backup capability. For those who don’t
Read MoreThis post will discuss different ways of setting up a Managment VLAN on your MikroTik router or switch. Bridging RouterOS on different MikroTik gear has always been troublesome due to the different ways of going about it. This post isn’t to discuss these differences, but to look specifically at ways to add a management IP
Read MoreSetting up Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN) with Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) like a Palo Alto, Juniper SRX, etc is a not as straightforward as one would think. The documentation they provide isn’t quite explicit enough so my goal here is to fill some of the gaps I had to work through. This is the documentation
Read MoreJust a collection of changes/quirks I’m noticing so far in RouterOS v7 beta releases. I plan to keep this updated as I continue to play more with v7. When importing public keys you can now use password protected keys, but it deletes the key once it imports. This is a difference from v6 where you
Read Moretl;dr: Python2 strikes back! Always use Python3. Ran into this issue after an upgrade of AWX from 14.0.0 to 15.0.1, where jobs will just fail with no output in AWX showing what happened. Just a blank box where stdout normally appears. Well great… Checked /var/log/, journalctl, and any other logging locations I could think of.
Read MoreIsolated nodes in AWX/Tower are used to do work in remote or secured networks. The only connection required is SSH between the “controller” node (the main AWX/Tower instance), and your remote node. This device can now do work for you in this remote network. The problem with setting these up is that I have yet
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