netbox Netbox Power Plugin A nature of the work we do within the Professional Services team at Axians is Proof of Concept projects and a number different types of testing for Large Service Providers
TIG Capturing Syslog with the TIG Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana) 😍 Within this post we will be exploring the use of Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana to capture, store and visualize syslog messages sent by Junos. Telegraf is an agent for collecting,
MIST Putting a python wrapper around the MIST API. Mist Mist has brought true innovation to the networking space with the world’s first AI-driven wired and wireless network. The Mist AI Platform makes networking predictable, reliable and measurable
netdevops Opensource Network Config Backup Introduction Oxidised is a network device configuration backup tool which was developed to be a replacement for Rancid. Oxidized is written in the Ruby programming language and is very extensible
ansible Ansible Slack Callback Plugin Ansible allows you to extend the system by using plugins. Plugins are executed at vaious stages of a run and allow you to hook into the system to add your
ansible Improving the Ansible output with AnstomLog After using Ansible for a while I feel that I need to customize the appearance of the output to make it more user friendly, this is due to the default
Lab File Server Within work we have a virtual environment with NFS storage but no central repository for images etc. This would be handy to have a NFS share that is full of commonly used images and software packages for our routers so that we can easily
Linux NFS Mount Needed to create a little host to allow me to transfer files to the LAB NSF storage to upload images etc. To do this we need to install NFS-COMMON sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nfs-common We then need to mount the NSF volume
Python Silver Peak SD-WAN Python Library A large part of the work I do is around the Silver Peak SD-WAN offering that Axians offers its customers. An area of interest of mine is around network automation so I like to use Python wherever possible. SD-WAN inherently has some form of
Installing NFSEN on Ubuntu A recent project of mine involved testing IPfix Netflow on a Juniper PTX10002 while running 100Gb of throughput with hundreds of thousands routes running through iBGP/eBGP. To test IPfix,
Getting Started with Ansible What is Ansible: Ansible is a great bit of open source software that allows us to be able to easily automate things that would often be a pain to do. It can deal with configuration management, application deployment, task automation and even IT orchestration.
Disable Parallax on one Squarespace Page While designing a website recently I needed to disable the parallax feature on one page. As I still wanted it to function on other pages. To do this you will need to inject a script into the page. Navigate to the page cog and
docker Moving Ghost Blog to Docker with NGINX Reverse Proxy I'm currently running blog.alexgittings.co.uk from an AWS Ubuntu instance which runs multiple blogs and websites with the use of VESTA panel. The bill for my AWS 1GB
Ghost Blog Running On Vesta CP *Ubuntu* Introduction: Having run a web server for many years to host some general websites for university projects etc. I have always used some kind of hosting control panel from cPanel to zPanel and finally, I have stayed with Vesta CP for a while. Vesta
