So I’ve taken some interest in creating an open source nextgen firewall. It’s beyond my current skill level (at least with the hobby time I have available) from a programming standpoint, but that’s how you grow, so let’s just see what I can figure out. It’ll be fun and a good learning experience to dig…
Category: Programming
I recently wrote a truly generic template builder/multi-replace tool in Python that I would like to share
I recently wrote a generic template builder/multi-replace tool that I though you guys might find useful if you have any cookie cutter deployments you do. It’s a HUGE timesaver when building multiple devices that are similar. When I say multi-replace I mean it will replace the original value every time it sees it, even if…
ConfigBuilder Python Class – Replaces data in template with values from CSV file.
I successfully built that router build script. Obviously I can’t show the full glory of what it can do on router builds, because those configs are proprietary for the company for which I work, but I’ll include a sample CSV file data and sample template. It just shows how to use it for your own…
The combination of automation/task delegation makes me happy
I have about 20 router configs to completlely rebuild, with varying numbers of vrfs. I sat down and figured out that is gonna take roughly…..too long. So I’m gonna write a python script to build them for me. I’ll have another engineer gather the info needed from existing routers (advertised subnets,etc) and pop it into…