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Cisco 9800 Wireless in Netdisco

A popular request on the Netdisco GitHub and mailing list has been better support for the Cisco 9800 Wireless Controller family. We’ve contributed a new C9800 SNMP::Info class that combines features from Airespace and standard Cisco MIBs, finally adding access points managed by these controllers to the Netdisco inventory. Check it out in Netdisco 2.10505 […]


How to insert a literal single quote into IBM Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer   Recently updated !

$ nco_sql -user netcool1> update custom.filterclauses set sqlclause = ‘EventClass = \’Tech Event\” where clauseid = 262> go(1 row affected) This detail seems to be missing from the manual and is somewhat hard to find otherwise. Other variants like doubling ” or concatenating a char(39) function will not work.


Cisco Prime 3.x fills up /var

Symptom : Prime 3.7 won’t start. Reason : /var is full, as /var/log/wtmp fills up quickly : sudo -i ls -l /var/log/wtmp ade # utmpdump /var/log/wtmp | more [5] [06834] [tyS0] [ ] [ttyS0] [ ] [0.0.0.0] [Tue Feb 04 21:30:45 2020 CET] [5] [06835] [tyS1] [ ] [ttyS1] [ ] [0.0.0.0] [Tue Feb 04 […]

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Announcing Cisco ACI APIC Support for Netdisco

If your organization uses both Netdisco and Cisco ACI, you might be interested in one of our latest Open Source projects: nd2-worker-plugin-aci. This extension uses the APIC REST API to integrate the fabric’s switch port to MAC address and MAC address to ARP entry mappings seamlessly into the Netdisco database. Licensed under the same liberal […]


auto-upgrade pip in Ansible role/task

Lets say you have an Ansible role in which you create a virtual-environment using Python 3.x: – name: Install python venv and requirements environment: http_proxy: http://proxy.domain.com:8080 https_proxy: http://proxy.domain.com:8080 HTTP_PROXY: http://proxy.domain.com:8080 HTTPS_PROXY: http://proxy.domain.com:8080 pip: extra_args: ‘–trusted-host pypi.python.org’ requirements: /path/to/requirements.txt virtualenv: /path/to/venv virtualenv_command: /opt/python-3.7.0/bin/python3.7 -m venv If your requirements.txt only contains the modules you really need for […]