2019 has taught me a new appreciation for stale websites; over the last year or two having/making time available to publish content has gotten tricky for me, so now when going about my usual Internet day, when I come across a site that hasn't been updated in a ...
SecOps: Automated Download of Qualys Vulnerability Report Data
I'm finding the Qualys Cloud Platform an invaluable vulnerability management tool, a mass of near real-time data that shows the security posture/risk of the estate. The reporting systems is "ok" (not stunning) but what is lacklustre is automated-reporting-feature, basically you can schedule things to run, but the data ...
Docker your python scripts!
Python's multi-platform availability is awesome, I develop on Mac and execute on Windows or Linux. What isn't awesome is dependency management, every time I touch a machine I go through a loop...
- Run the script.. it fails
- Pip install whatever I've missed.. I typically code my self ...
Automated Cisco WLC backup with a Python Script
As part of my ISE work I generally make changes to WLCs, I'm not really a Wi-Fi Guy so don't ask me about channel width but I do a lot with authentication and in ISE's case that usually includes an ACL or two on the WLC!
There ...
PowerShell: A simple script to GPG encrypt files
Recently I've needed to backup some sensitive files to online storage; my requirement was simple: work on local files and when they change encrypt. As I'm working on a windows machine that means powershell, I could schedule a task but I'm just manually running this as and ...
snmpwalk v3 and snmpget v3 examples
I always forget the syntax for snmpwalk/snmpget v3; so posting here to remember.
snmpwalk version 3
The command is:
snmpwalk -v3 -l authPriv -u snmp-poller -a SHA -A "PASSWORD1" -x AES -X "PASSWORD1" 10.10.60.50Example output:
[nick@server ~]$ snmpwalk -v3 -l authPriv -u snmp-poller -a SHA ...Ansible Cisco - Primer 2 - Making Changes
This is my second post, documenting some Ansible/Cisco examples, please check out my Ansible Cisco Primer 1 first; in this example we'll make some changes to devices.
TLDR; Some example files are on github: https://github.com/linickx/ansible-cisco
NTP & DNS, an easy example
This is a play ...
Ansible Cisco - Primer 1 - Hello World!
Anisble documentation or examples for Cisco devices appear to be a bit hit-n-miss, so I'm documenting my "Hello World Primer" with hope it'll be helpful to others; as this is quite long it will be two posts, one for getting started with a simple "show clock" and a ...
Apple Magic Mouse - Fixing Windows 10 scrolling
If you're a fan of Apple's Magic Mouse you can use it on Windows, however after pairing via Blue Tooth (the code is
0 0 0 0) you'll find that the touch scrolling doesn't work.It's easily fixed however,
- Download Boot Camp Support Software and ...
Introducing snsync, an rsync client for Simplenote
I'm a big fan of Simplenote, the iOS app is great but the OSX app, not so much. I had been using nvAlt as a client as it supports all the features that the official client does plus it allows you to take a plain text copy locally which ...