Monitoring MVP

October 28, 2018

Asset management, documentation and monitoring are important parts of any IT Ops team but at the same time they are boring, repetitive, error prone.

Last summer I spent some time investigating the possibility to integrate open source projects I like to create a Minimum Viable Product for asset management/monitoring and learn something during the process.

War stories - Network changes tools

October 21, 2018

Network changes tool to prevent disasters.

ACI training DCAC9K

October 12, 2018

This week I’ve attended a training about Cisco ACI DCAC9K . Based on my personal experience no training can cover all the topics or all the use cases but I think this training with a cover-to-cover read of Deploying ACI can help to build the basis to start the ACI journey with strong fundamentals.

Network topology validation with CDP and Python

August 13, 2018

Scenario As most IT professionals I usually configure network devices in a lab environment before the actual installation at customer site. I try to limit the installation as much as possible to a simple box moving process, spending most of the change window in a previously defined validation process. In this particular case I deal with a data center core network that includes 8 Nexus 9k switches configured in 4 VPC pairs and a bunch of links between them.

Cisco NAE From Download to Value in 60 Minutes or less

July 30, 2018

My new post about Cisco Network Assurance Engine: From Download to Value in 60 Minutes (or less) has been published, read it on GestaltIT Tech Talks .

War stories - The Docking Station

July 16, 2018

This story starts with a phone call at night. If you worked in IT long enough you know what it means.

Aruba 8400 programmability and spreadsheet integration

June 27, 2018

My new post about Aruba 8400 programmability has been published, read it on Aruba Blogs .

Configuration and Hardware Assurance in the Datacenter with Cisco Network Assurance Engine

May 30, 2018

My new post about Configuration and Hardware Assurance in the Datacenter with Cisco Network Assurance Engine has been published, read it on GestaltIT Tech Talks .

Bandwidth limit enforcement on access points

May 18, 2018

My new post about bandwidth limit enforcement on access points has been published, read it on Aruba Blogs .

Assure Network Security Policy and Compliance in the Data Center with Cisco Network Assurance Engine

April 25, 2018

At Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona I had a chance to see Cisco Candid (Network Assurance Engine) in action. My new post about Network Security Policy and Compliance in the Data Center with Cisco Network Assurance Engine has been published, read it on GestaltIT Tech Talks . Full video of TFDx session at CLEUR :

Telnet over Internet

April 20, 2018

A couple of days ago Cisco released a Security Advisory . No big deal so far, level was informational so I didn’t read it right away.

FMC API and TextFSM

March 13, 2018

Lerveraging FMC API and TextFSM to import objects from ASA.

Mikrotik hAP lite classic

March 6, 2018

For a Network Engineer living and working on the field has some challenges that are not common in office environments.

NetShot

February 13, 2018

Netshot Configuration and Compliance Management Software

Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018

February 1, 2018

I had the honor and pleasure of being invited again to attend Tech Field Day , this time for an Extra event at Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona. Cisco Live is a week full of product announcements, technical session, (social) networking with fellow network engineers, meetings with colleagues and customers, discussions with Cisco engineers about products and roadmap. This is exhausting and exciting at the same time but it definitely worth the effort.

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