First and foremost, I want to express my profound gratitude for an amazing eight years at Sauce Labs. From 2016 to now, I’m extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to build not just one, but two world-class teams during my time at Sauce, working alongside many others …
Once again it has been awhile. But I wanted to get some new content out. This year I was elected as a member of the board for WAA. Part of my time on the board will include writing articles for our membership. From the second I heard this I knew what I wanted to do. …
2015 was tough just no getting around it. I started the year working with an amazing team as the CTO of a company I really believed in and the COO of the company that was supposed to be my future. By the end of 2015 I had been through 3 jobs (all of my own …
WOW it has been a long time. It has taken life and career changes to get me back to the point that I have been able to really think about picking this up again. I have had amazing feedback from the original audience and I am hoping to do even better for you al this …
In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will be setting up IP Device Tracking on a Cisco IOS Switch. In General this will work on any Cisco IOS switch. Session Prerequisites: You have terminal or console access to your Cisco device. Session Assumptions: You have host devices connected to your switch Our goals of …
In the first four parts of What did you Expect, we covered the basics of getting started with automating interactions for network equipment. In the first few posts it was important have a networking environment that was 100% stable. The last thing I needed when I was trying to learn to use python to automate network …
WE HAVE WINNERS!! Big Congratulations to: John Swanson & Dustin Plunkett Hoping to get them both on the blog in the near future. Thanks to everyone who participated. Sign up for ACL, The StaticNAT Newsletter for future offers and to see what we are doing here at StaticNAT! So lately I have been on a …
So lets start off with I am an old dog and I am learning new tricks. My entire career I have avoided the dreaded programing. In college I slid by my degree requirement for a coding class by taking Visual Basic for Industrial applications. I hated it. Debugging drove me nuts and there is still …
Back in 1996 when I started this game there were lots of things I had not done. Now days it seems like everyone I meet is 18, running service provider networks and writing code in all the hip new languages. That is not the reality of the world. The reality is that we all start …
In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will be doing the initial setup for automation on a Cisco IOS Device. In General this will work on any Cisco IOS Device. Session Prerequisites: You have a Cisco Console Cable You have a serial port You have a Terminal Program that you can access your …
So far so good. In Part 1 we connected to a Cisco switch and and performed basic Authentication with Expect. Part 2 we expanded on that and added configuration to our code that added a VLAN and configured an interface. But as I have already stated we are writing quite a bit of code just to …
When you setup to learn new things you are bound to get a bit sideways once and awhile. With writing code I think that is even more the case. You start out with an idea and if your lucky like I have been so far it starts to flow and things just work. But in …
I have been working to learn how to use Python to automate interactions with network devices. Due to what I have in my lab and the fact that we have GNS to model Cisco Networks I started with IOS. In order to really test out the automation scripts I have been building, I felt it …
Josh O'Brien