Creating and Assigning Roles in Intersight

Cisco’s Intersight service provides flexible means to manage all your devices with a plethora of policies from a single web interface or via a robust REST API framework. Recent updates permit partitioning of an account and the associated resources according...

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GitHub Pages Build Environment for Jekyll

I love the idea of GitHub Pages and static content websites (and free!). I loathe the thought of a billion “fixing typo” or “fixing markdown” commits. This article describes the local build environment I built around Vagrant to test the...

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Mackie ProFX10v3 and USB returns 3-4

On the Mackie ProFXv3 10 channel mixer, you have 2x4 USB I/O available: 2 output channels and 4 input channels. On a Mac Book Pro, those channels are natively available without a custom driver. Finding the return channels 3-4, which...

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Epi[demi]c reasons for an audio upgrade

With the onset of pandemics and travel restrictions, a couple changes to the usual cycles of life collided fortuitously. The in-person events at which I typical present went virtual, requiring higher quality audio and video setups to stream my content....

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New location, fresh reboot

I’ve decided to relocate my blog content to something a little more developer and automation engineer friendly. Tumblr - the previous hoster of my content - has quite frankly become a bit less professional than when I began over 7...

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Cisco Live 2017 - A new experience even for the 9th time

Cisco Live US (Las Vegas) has come and gone - quite honestly, this year was a very different experience for me. First, I didn’t know I was going until 2 weeks before the conference - which leads to many challenges...

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Assuring your network will do what you think it will do

“Sweet!  I’d love to be able to simulate a change on the whole network!” “*All* paths from source IP to destination IP? Even ECMP?” “Wait, they aren’t running VMs/containers of each device to simulate all this?” “All of this can...

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Programmability at Cisco Live 2016

Today I want to post my observations regarding the DevNet component of the Cisco Live 2016 conference. Conference Strategy In years past, I ate up every single breakout session and at least one technical seminar (extra cost).  My philosophy was...

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