In the last post I used a webhook to notify a listener to run a remediation script. In this post I'll document how to configure the listener. FastAPI There are many options to setup a webhook listener. After a brief research I decided to use FastAPI instead the more common Flask. Webhook What is a webook? In essence, …

IP Fabric network discovery can collect the network state. Release 3.7.0 introduced webhooks. Let's see how webhooks can be used for automated remediation. Brownfield automation In a common brownfield scenario, an existing network is carefully configured box-by-box by CLI huggers network engineers. It is not unusual to …

During Cisco Live this year I had a chance to stop by IP Fabric booth and exchange a quick chat about their product and the problem they're trying to solve. After the event I had the opportunity to run a trial to better understand the product and the features if offers. What struck me was that the product solves …

AKIPS network monitoring. Network documentation and monitoring are topics that never lose interest to me. Over the years I worked with many products, Nedi, Observium, Librenms,, NetBox, Icinga, NetShot, Smokeping to name a few. Each product has its strengths and weaknesses that in some cases are nothing more than the …

My home network is connected to the Internet via radio bridge. The reason is ADSL services were not available a couple of years ago, now it is but since the radio bridge is cheap and works (most of the time) I really don't care to change. Some time ago I started to notice downtime of the Internet connection, I sent a …

On a customer's network we noticed that the Internet facing router reboots because of a software error. We stumbled on this issue by chance, just because one of the reboots was during a videoconference. Nobody noticed the problem before and they really don't know if the problem was there since the installation of the …