iControl
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A few weeks ago Lori nailed it with a post (The 2048-bit Keys to the Kingdom) on the coming forced migration to 2048-bit keys. A few days prior, I got a call from “THE” Matt Cauthorn, DevCentral resident stud contributor L4L7 about the very same issue. Not surprisingly, he was ahead of the game on this and has spent some time developing a tool that will take the mystery out of the licensing and infrastructure impact checklist items Lori mentioned. Well what does this tool do? Function ...
There have been several questions over the past month in the iControl forum as to whether or not pyControl works on linux. In the pyControl labs information, there are instructions for install on Microsoft Windows based systems, but not for linux, so maybe this is the source of confusion. This is not so much that pyControl isn't linux compatible as it is that the installation instructions on the many flavors of linux vary. In reality, the only step that should be different between the distributions is the first step: installing python. Now, on my flavor of choice, Ubuntu, python 2.6...
It's always a good day when I can combine great food with great geekery. Kansas City kicked off its initial user group meeting in style, serving up some excellent BBQ courtesy of the fine folks at Jack Stack BBQ. I've dined occasionally at the Overland Park location, but this is my first time at the Freight House. Everyone says location, location, location, is all that matters, but in this case, it doesn't. Both locations serve up some mighty fine BBQ. I steered clear of the ribs (I know, I'm crying) this time since I was presenting, but the turkey...
DevCentral community user mkelly kicked in some excellent Ruby contributions a while back with some scripts that Colin wrapped some documentation around in an article series back in January: Ruby meets iControl: Creating VIPs Ruby Meets iControl: Switching Policies Ruby Meets iControl: Making WideIPs This week, another community member, josb, contributed a SOAP4R wrapper for iControl. I'm not familiar at all with Ruby, but I downloaded the windows version of the language (sorry Colin), installed the SOAP4R gem, and tried out josb's scripts. Here's one example: GetPools.rb #!/usr/bin/env ruby
# vim:expandtab shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2
require 'f5'
Kernel.abort "Usage: #{$0} endpoint...
What's NSM you say? We'll go with Network and System Management, but you could throw Security in there as well. We'll work our way through the alphabet over the next several weeks looking at tools and concepts along the way for all the administrators out there. By the way, you can thank Joe for the format & Don for the title (I couldn't for the life of me come up with one.) Today's letter A is for arpwatch, a utility that keeps track of mac/IP pairings. This has obvious upside for making sure IP's aren't switching in non-DHCP...
