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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 […]


returning JSON from a view in CakePHP 1.1

I know CakePHP 3.5 is out, and before CakePHP 2.x and even before CakePHP 1.3 allowed to render JSON easily. But suppose you have a large code-base in CakePHP 1.1 you have to maintain, and suddenly someone wants JSON out of it… If upgrading your CakePHP version is possible, do it. Else, consider the code […]


Monitoring DeltaNet Lambdatrail WDM devices

DeltaNet has cool WDM products that one of our customer has deployed in a life-cycle project for a large WAN. In collaboration with the DeltaNet engineer, I have implemented a Zenoss ZenPack to monitor the specifics of their Lambdatrail XWDM multiplexers. The ZenPack provide these features: devices located under their own device class collect all […]

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