Isn’t SNMP just great? I love monitoring my network using an unreliable transport mechanism and an impenetrable and inconsistent data structure. Configuring my devices using automation is equally fun, where NETCONF has been subverted into something so […]
I was looking at some Ethernet interface statistics last week when I realized I couldn’t find the output that confirmed the results of Ethernet Autonegotiation, just that autonegotiation had been enabled:
1 2 3 4 5 | john@noisy> show interfaces ge-0/0/0 Physical interface: ge-0/0/0, Enabled, Physical link is Up [...] Link-level type: Ethernet, MTU: 1514, Speed: Auto, Duplex: Auto, [...] |
It turns out that […]
Not content to merely play with NETCONF, I have taken a side step briefly to complete another little tool that relies on a REST API and JSON. I’ll come back on the NETCONF script soon, […]
This week a colleague of mine (also a script junkie) was writing a change script to create a VLAN. In this case he was adding the VLAN to a Cisco FabricPath domain, and he observed […]
As a follow on from my post on Cisco’s acquisition of Tail-f and Cisco’s commitment to open standards, by chance I happened to need to grab the XML schema for a Nexus 5020 so I […]
In my last couple of posts I looked at the concept of managing network device configurations in an abstracted fashion – that is, saying what you want to configure rather than how it should be […]
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