[How To] Setup a Satisfactory Dedicated Server on Debian Linux
In a brief detour from my usual content, we'll take a quick look at how to build a new Satisfactory dedicated server on Debian Linux.…
[How To] Building a Simple Webex Chatbot with Python Websockets & OpenWeather APIs
Let's build a simple chatbot using Cisco Webex that can query the weather!…
Network Engineering: Do I REALLY Need to Learn to Code?
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…
[How To] Cisco SD-WAN - Onboarding a Catalyst 8000v
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/…
[How To] Connect Cisco SD-WAN to Umbrella SIG/SWG
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…
[How To] Connect Meraki MX to Umbrella SIG/SWG
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…
From Postman to Python: Your First GET Request
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…
Getting Started with IOS-XE Guestshell
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.…