Problems I needed to update Python in one of my forgotten labs from 3.6 as Netmiko required 3.7 or higher. So a quick Google and what I thought would be a straightforward install.Turns out it wasn’t. CentOS 7 has a bug that complains about the SSL modules in Python not being available. The fix to […]
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Licensing the Checkpoint firewalls Once you are able to download the license file, it must be uploaded to the device itself. If you have a separate management and gateway, you must only upload to the management. The gateway will connect and pull the license from the management. You can upload the license file through the
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This is a very quick and dirty way to backup network devices rom my GNS3 lab. I will likely expand on this in the future. This is a simple Paramiko script that will SSH into each device perform “show run” and sve that output with in a text file with the IP, year, month and
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This is where we start to integrate Scrapli with Flask. Here I have created a very quick website that is mostly reused from my F5 Dashboard project. This is a very simple web app with the single purpose of adding data to a database and then displaying that to a user. How it Works The
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A very quick demo of how Scrapli can connect to a device run “show version”. The output can be printed in the plain text format from the switch itself or from a parsed version in the form of a Python dictionary Notes Need to install Scrapli and Genie Genie will come with a lot of
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This is the lab that will be used for the Scrapli & Flask project. I have this lab setup on an NUC like PC running ESXi. This ESXi host is then connected into my pfSense firewall where it has access to the internet.I have created a route on the pfSense firewall to route traffic from
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