[How To] Set up Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) on Proxmox

In this blog post, we’ll walk through how to set up & install Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) on Proxmox

April 18, 2024 · 5 min · 882 words · Matt Schmitz

[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.

December 4, 2021 · 8 min · 1646 words · Matt Schmitz

Getting Started with Cisco NFVIS

A quick look at how to spin up NFVIS on a Cisco ENCS

April 13, 2019 · 4 min · 656 words · Matt Schmitz

Automated F5 Backups with CatTools

How to configure SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools to monitor & back up F5 load balancer configurations

March 27, 2018 · 3 min · 558 words · Matt Schmitz

Review: Amazon LightSail

My experience with hosting this blog on Amazon Lightsail

October 17, 2017 · 6 min · 1255 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 4 – Polling the SRX)

This post focuses on the Juniper SRX side of my VPN dashboard - writing the Python scripting to query VPN status from each device

July 4, 2017 · 6 min · 1212 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 3 – Creating the Dashboard)

This post focuses on the web GUI side of the VPN dashboard - storing & displaying the information that gets collected

June 27, 2017 · 11 min · 2237 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 2 – Learning Django)

In order to build my Juniper SRX VPN dashboard, I opted to use Django. Let’s take a quick look at how I got started.

June 13, 2017 · 6 min · 1087 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 1 - Initial thoughts)

I decided to build a web GUI to monitor Juniper SRX VPN tunnels. Here’s what I was thinking…

June 7, 2017 · 3 min · 548 words · Matt Schmitz

How to: Synology Backups with CrashPlan

In this post, we’ll walk through a tutorial on setting up Crashplan to back up a Synology NAS via NFS

May 16, 2017 · 6 min · 1217 words · Matt Schmitz