Aaron's Worthless Words

Sign in Subscribe

automation

Sending Slack Messages with Python

Here’s a quick summary of what we’ve talked about in the last few posts — all with Python. * We’ve asked Netbox to provide some info using pynetbox. * We’ve added stuff to Netbox using pynetbox. * We’ve updated and deleted stuff in Netbox using pynetbox. * We’ve logged

Using Python Logging to Figure Out What You Did Wrong

As a warning to everyone, I am not a developer. I am a network engineer who is trying to do some automation stuff. Some of what I’m doing sounds logical to me, but I would not trust my own opinions for production work. I’m sure you can find

Deleting Stuff from Netbox with Pynetbox

As a warning to everyone, I am not a developer. I am a network engineer who is trying to do some automation stuff. Some of what I’m doing sounds logical to me, but I would not trust my own opinions for production work. I’m sure you can find

Updating Stuff on Netbox with Pynetbox

Let’s see. We’ve queried stuff on Netbox and added stuff to Netbox. Now let’s update stuff. Netbox, like all sources of truth, needs to be kept up-to-date if it’s going to be useful. Without doing some maintenance on the data, it will wind up being like

Automating My World

I’ve told this story 984828934 time in the past year, but bear with me. We got a new director-type last year, and he has challenged all of us to do things differently. As in everything. Anything that we’re doing today should be done differently by next year. This

An Update for my Adoring Fans

I feel like a teenage girl with a fashion blog who hasn’t posted in 6 months and comes back with “I know I haven’t posted in a while…” Sigh. It’s been right at a year since I actually published a post, so I figured I would give

A Quick Intro to Google's Capirca

Yeled left a comment earlier this week asking if I’d seen Google’s Capirca. I’d heard of it and checked out some presentation slides on it, but I’d never actually tried it out, so, in keeping with the script, I downloaded it to see what it could