I needed a way to know when we had PRTG sensors down without having a screen dedicated to the task at home. I cobbled together a solution with a Raspberry Pi, a BlinkStick Square and some Python.
Read More Visual Alerting for PRTG using a Raspberry Pi, Python and a BlinkStickI recently experienced a strange issue with an access list on a Cisco router which took me a while to fix so I thought it was worth sharing (as obscure as it is!)
Read More A funny thing with ACLs on a Cisco RouterA few issues popped up this week involving PRTG and notifications and I was disappointed to see that whilst PRTG has pre canned notification templates for Microsoft Teams and Slack, there is nothing for Cisco WebEx Teams. Time for some scripting!
Read More PRTG Notifications for Cisco WebEx TeamsI ran into a weird problem a few nights ago during a change with DNS caching on a VMWare vCSA that took a while to resolve so I thought it was worth posting about.
Read More Fun with DNS Caching on a VMWare vCSAThis little script kinda goes with the Backup script in my previous post. The specific use case is that of an ESXi host that has had to be rebuilt from scratch
Read More ESXi Configuration Restore ScriptI have been doing a bit of work with ESXi recently and came up with this little PowerShell script to quickly back up the configurations of all the ESXi hosts managed by a particular vCenter Server.
Read More ESXi Configuration Backup ScriptThis weekend I have been messing about with automating the installation and configuration of ESXi for an upcoming project. I got stuck on a particular aspect of this so through it was worth posting about.
Read More Preparing an encrypted root password hash for an ESXi install scriptI was using Remmina on a Raspberry Pi as an RDP client to access a Windows RDS Server and display status screens from various monitoring applications. I already had Remmina configured to auto start, I just needed to delay it by about 60 seconds.
Read More Autostarting an Application in Unity on Ubuntu MateI have recently had the opportunity to get my hands on a shiny new Cisco DNA Center appliance and some sexy new Catalyst 9K switches. One of the first items on my to-do list was to configure an existing ISE server as an external authentication source using TACACS.
Read More Cisco DNA Center external Authentication using ISE TACACS – Part 1This is a quick post on how I handled the Captive Network Assistant for a site that was hosting a walled garden WiFi network and wished to redirect clients to a media service portal splash page.
Read More Handling the Captive Network Assistant for a closed network with a redirect using Apache and Bind