We’ve got a switch with a number of layer 3 interfaces bound to networks which we need in EIGRP. One solution is to use a statement, but this introduces a few unwanted behaviors, the primary one being that this enables EIGRP on these interfaces which is undesirable. The…

Just a quick command to set an Out of Office reply through PowerShell. While we normally configure forwarding when offboarding staff, this particular customer only wanted out of office replies. This example applies the policy to all mailboxes in an OU, but it can obviously be…

I’ve got an 887 with an advsecurity license but need EIGRP for a quick lab. Normally I’d reach for GNS3 but figured activating an evaluation of the advipservices license would be quicker, and it was something I had never done before. We can activate the trial with the command…

We’ve just some Nexus 3548-X switches and being my first hands on experience with these devices this post will serve as a small notebook of things I’ve deemed worth jotting down. Interface Naming and Status The first thing which stood out was that all interfaces are named . As…

Nope, this isn’t yet another blog post explaining resource pools. By now everyone should know how they work, and if not, you’ve been linked to 99% of what there is to know. We should also all know that vApps act exactly like resource pools, so when they’re created, or have VMs…

I believe PSRemoting to be one of the most exciting features of PowerShell, it allows us to execute scripts and code on remote machines and even open full PowerShell sessions (think SSH in the Windows world). Better than SSH, we can execute locally written functions on the remote…

One of my recent tasks involved taking a SAN out of action for maintenance and I needed to ensure the remaining SANs had enough capacity to run all of our VMs. I could have simply looked at the used space in the vSphere GUI, but this includes powered off VMs which I wasn’t…

Suppose you had a Flask app with a number of views for which you wanted to perform some logic before presenting the view to the user. A common case is checking that a user is logged in before being able to access views which should be protected, and if they’re not, redirecting…