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Using Python for Juniper on a Mac
Juniper Networks has developed a python library to manage their devices. The library is called “junos-eznc” hosted at GitHub. This library is meant to be able to handle commands programmatically that...
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Using Ansible to deploy Juniper configurations
Automation is a growing technology in enterprise IT departments. The ability to automate hundreds of steps for developing, building, deploying, and scaling applications and servers is a huge win for...
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Safari Books Online Review
Online and digital readers are becoming the standard for recreational and academic communication of the written language. Largely due to the convenience and how quickly available it is. If you have a...
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Calling Sublime from Terminal
I work a lot from the command-line. From SSH sessions to automation scripts. My finger memory is always wanting to “$ vim <filename>” when I need to edit a text file. There is certainly nothing...
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Getting started with Vagrant
Vagrant has been getting a lot of attention, lately, for programming, testing, and lab’ing professionals. It’s a VM controller that allows you to setup your infrastructure using a single configuration...
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McAfee Email Gateway and Domino
We are recently reviewing the McAfee Email Gateway (MEG) appliance against our existing Barracuda Email Gateway appliance. One of the tasks was to put in Recipient Validation. You know…. where we...
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Hey Vendor. I’m not closed-minded if I don’t want to talk
Many times, I’ll have a vendor of a product try to talk to me about their product, and how it can help me. I respectfully let them know that I’ve already got something that fills that need. They then...
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To fix a problem, you must understand the problem
I have seen this too many times, and I’m at a point where I just need to get this out. I have known technicians (and even “engineers”) that fix problems based on internet posts. Now, this is not...
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My Twitter Ethic
I was recently asked, “What makes me follow someone on Twitter?” That took me longer to think, as I wasn’t really expecting it. I don’t have a formula or anything, so I thought I’d just write down my...
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Moving on – My new career path – ExtraHop Networks
The Beginning For the entirety of my 16-year IT career, I have always worked in the private enterprise. As such, my experience has always been in the infrastructure that lies before me. Through...
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Listing, Iterating, and Loading JSON in Ansible Playbooks
I just had to work with JSON in Ansible, and iterate through some data. It took me a few efforts of debugs before I got it, so putting it here for posterity, in hopes to help someone else. Eventually,...
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Is a problem really a problem?
Do problems matter? For those that may not know, my job is to build solutions to not only give you intelligence to make more knowledgable decisions faster, but also to identify problems in your current...
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