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Using Pynetbox to Create Netbox API Tokens
This time around, we use pynetbox to generate API tokens in Netbox.
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Querying Netbox with Pynetbox
You should be using Netbox or something equivalent. I’m serious. Stop documenting your network with Word docs and Wiki pages and use something where the information can be queried. I’ve been using Netbox for a couple years, and it’s where I keep all that important information about my network. I use it to store hardware
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Adventures in Upgrading Netbox
I’ve been using Netbox for a while now, and, frankly, I can’t live without it. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a Source of Truth for your network automation tasks started by Jeremy Stretch. I use it to document my networks (hardware inventory, subnets, physical connections, etc.), which provides my automation tasks a place
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BGP Configuration on FortiOS
I’ve never done a post on Forti-anything, but I’m really appreciating the products Fortinet is putting out lately. They’re transitioning from “run your SMB off of our stuff” to “actually, we’re pretty good for larger companies”, so their GUI lacks features to keep the SMB from blowing stuff up, The advanced features are there in
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Modular Network OS with Nokia SR Linux
I was lucky enough to have been invited to attend Network Field Day 29 this past September in San Jose, CA. This event brings independent thought leaders together with a number of IT product vendors to share information and opinions. We saw presentations from a pretty full range of vendors — from the chips to observability. It
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Nyansa Voyance at NFD18
Disclaimer : I was lucky enough to have been invited to attend Network Field Day 18 this past July in Silicon Valley. This event brings independent thought leaders to a number of IT product vendors to share information and opinions. I was not paid to attend any of these presentations, but Tech Field Day did
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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 isn’t saying that we’re doing things wrong.
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Cisco Live 2018 – Yes, I Went Too
It’s been a very busy month or so. June is always like that, it seems. There’s ARRL Field Day, which is always the last rainy weekend in June. This year, Cisco Live was in June, and that typically includes Tech Field Day activities. Right before that, we had the whole family in town for a
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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 everyone an update. I’ve had some personal things
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Cisco Live US 2017 – Saturday Adventure
For the last couple years, on the Saturday before Cisco Live US kicks off, we like to go and do something in the host city. Nothing big. Nothing fancy. Just something we aren’t going to be able to do once the conference gets going. In San Diego, we went to the zoo. Last year, we