Configuring Cisco VIRL External Connectivity on ESXi
So I recently built a Cisco VIRL lab on VMware ESXi. One of the issues I was…
Using Python Paramiko to automate commands on Palo Alto PAN OS
So Palo Alto TAC recently confirmed to me that PAN OS 9.0.3 has a bug wherein the…
Unisphere Management service won’t start on EMC VNX Array
OK so we had a scheduled power outage at one of our secondary DCs. The SAN was…
Troubleshooting VMware lost access to volume errors
Recently we have been seeing heaps of these types of errors fill up our VMware ESXi logs:…
Setting up AD Auth with Hashicorp Vault
Hashicorp Vault is open source and can be used in DevOps processes for secure automated retrieval of…
Palo Alto Networks Powershell Backup Script
As we recently rolled out a bunch of PA firewalls, I have created a powershell script to…
ELK Stack with Palo Alto Firewall – Using Curator to clear indexes
I recently deployed an ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) VM as logger for a Palo Alto Networks…
Request a SAN certificate using MS CA Web enrollment Pages
1. Run these commands on the MS CA server: certutil -setreg policy\EditFlags +EDITF_ATTRIBUTESUBJECTALTNAME2 net stop certsvc net…
Renaming a vSwitch in VMWare ESXi
At the ESX Console, log in and hit Alt-F1 then type unsupported and hit Enter. You won’t…