I guess it's that time of year again, where I'm starting to see the same discussion points pop up quite a bit once more: "As a network administrator, do I really need to learn to code?" "How much to I need to learn?" "This will…
I've been getting a handful of questions lately on the process of bringing a Cisco Catalyst 8000v or CSR 1000v into an SD-WAN environment. So I figured maybe I should put something together to share. On a related note - I've been debating for a while doing a blog and/…
In this post, we'll walk through configuring a Cisco Viptela SD-WAN network to integrate with Cisco Umbrella's Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) & Secure Web Gateway (SWG). If you're interested in reading more about what SIG & SWG are, please check out my last post where I walked through this integration…
In today's blog post - we'll be checking out how to integrate a Meraki MX firewall to Cisco's Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) & Secure Web Gateway (SWG) services. Interested in seeing how to do this with Cisco Viptela SD-WAN? Check out this post Note: This integration is still rather…
Maybe it's just me - but I feel like when we want to demonstrate product APIs to someone, we usually jump into Postman first. It's not without good reason though. Postman is a very easy to use platform for running API calls against REST endpoints & see the nicely formatted…
This post has been on my backlog for a while... I've been intermittently trying out the IOS-XE guestshell feature for a few different projects, and never feeling like any of them were good enough to write about. So why not just write about guestshell itself? It's such a nifty tool.…
I have a local Cisco SD-WAN lab environment running at home, which was built in EVE-NG. It's what I use whenever I need to test something for a customer, or just play around with the templates or APIs. I'm planning on spending some hands-on time with new features soon, along…
In the last post, I covered a simple project that I'm working on while studying for the Cisco DevNet certifications. This is part two of a series, which will continue on while I work through this project. As a brief summary - I started using a combination of Scrapli &…
