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Category: Automation

Restore VMware ESXi Host Configuration

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Nick Moody
Friday, 01 June 2018 / Published in Automation, Lab, Networking
This is a follow up post to the last one about backing up VMware host configurations. This post details how to Restore VMware ESXi Host Configuration. Restoring a configuration requires the host to be running the same product and build version that the backup was taken from. This was harder than I thought to work out

VMware ESXi Host Backups Python Script

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Nick Moody
Saturday, 19 May 2018 / Published in Automation, Lab
This post details a VMware ESXi host backups Python Script I use in my home lab. VCSA does not backup the configuration for the hosts it manages. Config items like vswitch, vnic, MTU settings, kernel interfaces and various other settings would be lost if the host fails. Re-building a host manually, especially hosts with complex

Executing Python scripts from crontab

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Nick Moody
Sunday, 01 April 2018 / Published in Automation
I’ve been slowly converting my bash scripts to Python. This post details how I solved an issue with executing Python scripts from crontab. Most of my bash scripts are scheduled to run daily using crontab and work fine. The first script I converted to Python was a bash script used to backup the configurations of my
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Cisco SG300 backup python script

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Nick Moody
Friday, 16 February 2018 / Published in Automation, Lab, Networking
New script published to GitHub, a Cisco SG300 backup python script used to backup my SG300’s in my home lab. The script uses Netmiko to handle the ssh connection. The configuration from each switch is saved to a TFTP server in my home lab. I’ll shortly be adding an alternative version of the script which

Automating the reboot of my home cable modem

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Nick Moody
Friday, 27 January 2017 / Published in Automation, Networking
This post details my approach to automating the reboot of my home cable modem. Up until recently my ISP has been extremely reliable and in over 14 years I’ve been a customer with them I could count on my hand the number of times I’d experienced issues. For the last week the service has been
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Palo Alto Configuration Backup API Script

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Nick Moody
Monday, 11 July 2016 / Published in Automation, Lab, Networking
This is the first post of many detailing the scripts I use to backup devices in my home lab. This post details a Palo Alto configuration backup API script. Eventually i’ll move to using Ansible but for now some simple scripts work nicely. Almost all the the backups in my lab are now automated. The script

The Home Networking Lab

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Nick Moody
Wednesday, 29 June 2016 / Published in Automation, Lab, Networking, Personal, Security
Here is an overview of the Home networking lab setup. You might ask why even have a home lab these days? You can build a fairly grown up enterprise grade topology using virtualization? Agreed, especially if you have high spec workstation or choose a cloud provider for the compute. Why I built a home lab
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Project APC PowerChute Network Shutdown VMware Esxi

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Nick Moody
Sunday, 22 May 2016 / Published in Automation, Lab, Networking
I’ve just completed a project for my home network / lab to automate the graceful shutdown of my VMware Esxi hosts.  Project Configure APC Powerchute Network Shutdown (PCNS) objective was to solve a problem with accounting for input power failure to my UPS. We rarely experience utility power outages but we had an incident recently
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