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. Note: This integration is still rather new - so I anticipate some of the screenshots & steps below may differ as…
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 &…
So I just scheduled an upcoming attempt at the Developing Applications using Cisco Core Platforms and APIs (DEVCOR 350-901) exam. It's coming up quick in two weeks here & I'm starting to do some review / final prep before taking the exam. Why does this matter? Well - I plan on…
So if you've read some of my recent posts - you may have seen that I purchased a NetGear LB 1121 LTE Cellular modem to use for home internet backup. Well - I decided to upgrade! After using the NetGear modem for a while, I started having some issues where…
In a recent post, I walked through setting up a Netgear LTE cellular modem with Google Fi. Might seem random - but I had a plan for this! In trying to ensure I keep a stable internet connection for work, I eventually led myself down the path of buying a…
