Miguel @mhbg@qoto.org

@stephenfry this is so funny and "straight" to the point (see what I did there?!).

Glad this is only satire!

I needed to sum up the #BGP basics, so I came up with these. Would you do it differently?

#networking #cisco #training

That feeling when you cringe at code you wrote 1 year ago

@bobdobberson@dobbs.town nice ideas, thanks for sharing.

@engineeringdad love this quote!

Got a help request call from the team today while preparing dinner for the kids.
They were trying to recover remote management of a #cisco router and where at it for a few hours.
Finish making dinner (kids do come first ) and joined them in a call.
10min later we find a pesky "no exec" on the line vty! It had been there for at least 1 year!
Got to say it felt good being able to help

#teamwork

@trinsec good to know. I do think we should toot in any language we want, but having a quick way to translate is a must.

There is one thing I miss here in the #fediverse, a simple way to #translate a toot!

Update: I went with my original idea for this #cisco #bgp lab and used the #win10 clock app to create a timer for each trainee. I set the timer to 1h40 and let them sweat
This simple clock got them moving and competing which was my intention.

It was fun for me and for them too.

@gcluley Thanks for sharing this, mainly about the verified accounts.
I used to trust that in #Twitter and was confusing here, but I guess wherever we are we can't really trust these mechanisms as Internet is inherently anonymous.

@LouisIngenthron Good to know, won't lose time with that one!
On the other hand, "The playlist" about Spotify is really good.

@MrsDi Thanks for the suggestion Christina, didn't know about this site
The question is that we'll be using a terminal window to access the devices, so not sure this works, but I'll save it for a later project, this looks promising.

I've been doing some trainings to help out my team understand #BGP better, so I've created this LAB in #EVE-NG using #cisco CSR1000V and caused all sort of issues.

The idea is to have 3 team members working to fix every problem I caused, but I'm looking to "gamify" this a bit, any suggestions?

I love #automation, so when I have to look for a hostname, open a monitoring tool that takes about 15min (just to open) and confirm the hostname is there and the device is being monitored, it's a new opportunity to put my skills to the test!
The tool has no real automation, but I can get the output of a generic search in a CSV via e-mail... humm.
#Microsoft #flow to the rescue
I set a flow to upload the CSV file attached to the mail to a shared folder and, with a XLOOKUP in #Excel and some data importing, all done without touching anything else!
It's not that fancy but it works

Great morning start
Up since 3 AM because the little one (2yo) though it was play time.
Left the car for a paint job and had to walk back home for 40min and now I'm late for work.

Definitely the hardest job is to be a parent!

@mkennedy Didn't notice you were the host of the Talk Python podcast
Love your podcast!

I hate doing repetitive tasks, so I decided to automate part of my tasks.
Between using #python, #bash, #expect and also Microsoft #flow, I usually get the jobe done.
Here are some of my latest projects:
OrIt - simple script to put an "or" between strings. Very useful for searches in ticketing tools
Clipboard cleaner - use this to get devices IP by copying specific text from specific xymon monitoring tool
Accedian toolset - a simple #python package to access Accedian devices remotely using #paramiko

These are just a few, I'll post more as I remember them