This lab will expand on the previous vPC configuration lab. I have made a few configuration changes since that lab. HSRP, vPC priority and the STP root is Nexus1. vPC Priority This isn’t like HSRP where it can be set to a higher priority than the default 100 and then that device will always be […]
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This is to configure vPCs on Nexus 9000s in GNS3. For this lab I will repurpose my Nexus Multicast Lab.I will need to add some extra links between mcast_nexus1 and 2 switches to accommodate the port-channel vPC link and the vPC keepalive link. My topology is going to be a basic topology of four Nexus
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I have added a multicast page to the web app that demonstrates the ability to pull in details for multicast. I originally planned to use this with the Nexus multicast lab, however as TextFSM or Genie do not support the parsing of the command “show ip mroute”. Side note Genie does support the command “show
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I have used Jinja in all of my projects that use Flask. It’s a simple way to get Python syntax into a HTML page.Details about the project and full documentation can be found here. I will show how I have used Jinja in my Multicast Daskboard, part of my Scrapli and Flask Project. I have
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When I was creating the page in my Scrapli and Flask Project for Multicast details. I had a requirement to split a string on multiple delimiters. As always Stack Overflow came to aid me. The “show ip mroute” plain text output from the Nexus switch uses multiple delimiters for new lines, three specifically: “\n, \n\n,
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I have used parsing in other projects. I used Genie and TextFSM to parse Cisco output in order to get specific details.TextFSM in ProjectGenie in ProjectHere I want to take a closer look at creating a TextFSM template. As I could not easily find a TextFSM template for the Nexus command “show ip mroute” I
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