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Category: Automation

Post Categories Automation Azure Cloud R&S Security VPN
Post dateSeptember 30, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated November 2, 2021

Azure Policy based VPN

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time1 min read
By default, Azure uses route based VPN if we select IKEv2 option (either we...
Post tagsazure, cloud, routing, vpn0
Post Categories Automation Linux and Open-source Python R&S
Post dateSeptember 30, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated November 2, 2021

Parsing mac address with regex

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time1 min read
Vendors use different mac address format. When capturing mac address or arp table, output...
Post tagsautomation, linux, python0
Post Categories Automation Cloud Linux and Open-source
Post dateAugust 13, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated August 13, 2021

NetBox adding objects over API

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time1 min read
Introduction API of netbox allows to add new devices, prefixes, sites etc. programmatically. We...
Post tagsapi, netbox0
Post Categories Automation Cloud Linux and Open-source
Post dateAugust 12, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated August 12, 2021

NetBox API request

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time58 sec read
Introduction The beauty of netbox is that we can pull any data we want...
Post tagslinux, netbox0
Post Categories Automation Azure
Post dateJune 3, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated June 3, 2021

Azure CLI JSON query

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time8 sec read
Query for multiply objects: pawel@Azure:~$ az network public-ip list -g ThamesHospice-Azure_Prod --query .''...
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Post Categories Automation Linux and Open-source
Post dateMay 10, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated May 10, 2021

Check vendor with API

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time1 min read
During troubleshooting, it is often required to check a vendor of device in our...
Post tagsautomation, awk, bash, linux, sed0
Post Categories Automation
Ansible Cisco ASA backup
Post dateFebruary 17, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated April 5, 2021

Ansible Cisco ASA backup

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time2 min read
Introduction The following Ansible playbook connects to the ASA firewall, authenticates with SSH key...
Post tagsansible, automation, ciscoasa0
Post Categories Automation
Python traffic generator
Post dateFebruary 14, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated July 22, 2021

Python traffic generator

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time1 min read
Introduction Sometimes I’m desperate to generate some traffic to test the network on various...
Post tagsautomation, linux, python0
Post Categories Automation Azure Cloud Linux and Open-source
Post dateJanuary 22, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated January 22, 2021

Ansible variable from line argument

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time46 sec read
Introduction Quick post; how to configure Ansible playbook to pass command line arguments to...
Post tagsansible, automation, azure, cloud0
Post Categories Automation
Post dateJanuary 2, 2021Post last updated dateUpdated January 18, 2021

Connecting Git to remote repository

Post author
Avatar pawel pawel
Post read time1 min read
Introduction I use GIT on my local server to track changes for my automation...
Post tagsansible, automation, git0

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