ASAs and Ansible: Secure secrets with Ansible Vault
The Ansible scripts I have written so far to update Pingdom IPs and update Palo Alto GPCS IPs have worked fine, certainly as intended, but would fall foul of …
Category: Scripting
ASAs and Ansible: Variables and APIs
Following on from the post about using Ansible to manage the 100+ Pingdom probe IP addresses, today’s post is very similar, but this time working with the IP addresses for …
ASAs and Ansible: Bye-bye to managing 100+ IPs
Third-party monitoring is good for a number of reasons, mainly being that your services can be checked from a number of locations, alleviating the burden of setting this up …
Linux script can’t find /bin/sh – its a Windows problem
A bit off my usual topics, but it might be useful to others. I have been trying to set up a monitor on Riverbed loadbalancers to do LDAPS lookups. …
Automated ASA, IOS and NX-OS backups using SSH, EXPECT and SCP
In the previous post I covered how to perform automated backups of Cisco IOS using EEM (Embedded Event Manager). It’s a good script, but not all Cisco devices support …