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 ...
OSX: How to install the Microsoft Fonts
I've recently had to rebuild my laptop and needed to setup M$ fonts for work. The top hit for installing fonts is a stack exchange thread pointing to a 3rd Party download, given that I knew that office came with the fonts, I just needed to figure where they ...
Monitor for Fake Certificates with Certificate Transparency
Certificate Transparency (CT), is an open, public, Certificate Authority monitoring system. More info available over at certificate-transparency.org.
The CT web site sights a couple of examples where CAs have failed, either through compromise or mistake, but recently Facebook caught fake certificates where there was no fault of the CA ...
SSH Server on Windows, the Microsoft Way
An SSH server for windows, it's the kind of thing only a Linux/OSX user would ask for. The current defacto standard is Cygwin but if you fancy something a bit more native, something a bit backed by Microsoft then take a look at PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH on github.
Installation ...
Automated Let's Encrypt Certificates
Last month I was very pleased that I had managed an automated Let's Encrypt certificate renewal; the other night the renewal broke as the certificate was issued from a different intermediate CA, so help others out I thought I'd share with you my cron script.
Before copy/pasting ...
