Even More TestLab Scripts
I doubt many home labs match hardware exactly with whatever the vendor has recommended. As a result most of us must script around or manually edit vendor configuration files. Here are some of my...
View ArticleTSHOOT Tickets
I took and did not pass my TSHOOT exam last week. Bummer. I had not studied specifically for the test very hard. In my mind I had already started thinking about the CCIE written and even started doing...
View ArticleRed Hat Upgrades
Now that RHEL6 is out I’ve begun playing with upgrading our older RHEL servers, starting with anything that is RHEL4 and then moving forward to RHEL5. The simplest one to start with was one of our...
View ArticleAnother TestLab Script
I’m sorry that all of these TestLab scripts are a recurring theme. Work purchased four 3560s and two 1841s for the lab so I have been updating all of my scripts. When I was working on the lab I kept...
View ArticlePassword Aging
At the Circus we have a password policy to change all passwords every 90 days. Today it was brought to my attention that one of the linux servers was not following that policy. I confirmed that was...
View ArticleData Loss Prevention
Every once in a while I get to write a neat piece of code that I can share. This is one of those times. I realize it is not large and by PerlMonk standards not very elegant. The problem therein lies...
View ArticleTestLab Script in AppleScript
I got a new Mac Pro workstation at work and re-wrote some scripts to work on it. This morning I couldn’t find the script under the new file lay out, it was in /Applications so I decided I had better...
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Hacking the 7926G Getting Started
The past month I have been writing midlets for the 7926G Cisco IP phone. The interesting aspect of this phone for the hospital is that it has a barcode scanner built into the end of the phone. All of...
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Hacking the 7926G MIDlet Deployment
I really struggled with the deployment of MIDlets to the phone. What should have been simple, became convoluted because I did not change a mime type on the web server. As a result I emailed back and...
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Hacking the 7926G MIDlet Development
Requirements The hospital is forming our plan to handle closed loop medication administration. What that means to a patient is that their armband will scanned to verify who they are, then the...
View ArticlePassword Aging
At the Circus we have a password policy to change all passwords every 90 days. Today it was brought to my attention that one of the linux servers was not following that policy. I confirmed that was...
View ArticleData Loss Prevention
Every once in a while I get to write a neat piece of code that I can share. This is one of those times. I realize it is not large and by PerlMonk standards not very elegant. The problem therein lies...
View ArticleTSHOOT Tickets
I took and did not pass my TSHOOT exam last week. Bummer. I had not studied specifically for the test very hard. In my mind I had already started thinking about the CCIE written and even started doing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hacking the 7926G Getting Started
The past month I have been writing midlets for the 7926G Cisco IP phone. The interesting aspect of this phone for the hospital is that it has a barcode scanner built into the end of the phone. All of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hacking the 7926G MIDlet Development
Requirements The hospital is forming our plan to handle closed loop medication administration. What that means to a patient is that their armband will scanned to verify who they are, then the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hacking the 7926G MIDlet Deployment
I really struggled with the deployment of MIDlets to the phone. What should have been simple, became convoluted because I did not change a mime type on the web server. As a result I emailed back and...
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C360 or Cisco Expert-Level Training Script
I’ve been using the C360 labs for training and have gotten tired of fighting with window management. At first I figured it would be good practice for the lab, but now I’m just tired of messing with...
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Linux NAT with a Web Interface
In 2006 I wrote a web interface for Linux NAT tables. It was not pretty, but it moved NAT from the core routers or firewalls onto a server that the PC Techs could manage. The goal was to push...
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Webmail with SSL Certificates
This stack is part of a larger project that I created nearly ten years ago. I am on the fourth rewrite of this for some internal email. We are in the process of migrating from Cyrus and Squirrelmail to...
View ArticleVMware Troubles
At the Circus we have been having random reboots and are struggling to figure out the culprit as no one can seem to find any errors in the logs. In order to help narrow the scope I wrote this script...
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