This is a mini project I created for myself in one of my previous roles. The problem, that it is designed to solve is given an IP address, where is that IP physically located? This is necessary in older network environments that aren’t using tools such as Solarwinds, or newer products like; Cisco ISE, DNA […]
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Inventory & Group Vars The Ansible inventory file can be specified or a default location can be configured in the /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg file by adding the following lines. The group variables are a way of assigning groups inside the inventory file variables. The inventory can be either a single group of all devices, or split into
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Here I have a collection of commands for reference. Ansible can be run using ad-hoc commands or playbooks.Ad-hoc commands are all in the single command. Raw commands are entered in the Ad-hoc mode and are the commands that would usually be entered into the CLI of the network device or server.Playbooks are a series of
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Basic how to guide to Install Ansible quickly on Ubuntu. The full guide for Ubuntu is here. Installation Create the Inventory to Test This file is named router_switch_inv.ini in my lab. Test Topology With three lines and a small file it is very simple to start interacting with network devices. Inventory File in Depth The
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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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I have added the ability to create a base device template for Cisco IOS, Nexus and IOS-XE.The idea of this is to create a quick way to get a basic configuration to SSH on to the device. For switches, the options for configuration can become quite complex as you can have either a VLAN or
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I wanted to show what can be done with RPA inside of Python. I have written a small script that takes in a list of domains and checks them against SSL Labs.Code can be found in my GitHub There is an API for this website, but I wanted to use RPA to show it off.
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