Michael Schoen NWMichl

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I build networks at @IT.NRW, conquer the useless, advocate NetDevOps, Telemetry and ipv6.

NWMichl / syslog_nxos.yml

Last active December 14, 2020 08:20

A declarative Ansible playbook to manage Cisco NX-OS syslog server configuration

	# Syslog configuration with Cisco NX-OS devices
	#
	# Usage: ansible-playbook -k -u <cli_user> syslog_nxos.yml
	# Specify the syslog servers in the 'vars:' section of the playbook header.

	---
	- name: Ensure desired state - syslog server
	hosts: all
	gather_facts: false
	connection: network_cli

NWMichl / grafana_ping_panel.json

Created January 10, 2021 22:43

Grafana panel idea to visualize Telegraf inputs.ping metrics, a nice alternative to Smokeping.

NWMichl / apic_query.py

Created February 15, 2021 09:15

Query the Cisco ACI APIC API using Python & requests

	import requests, json

	apic_url = 'sandboxapicdc.cisco.com'
	apic_username = 'admin'
	apic_password = 'ciscopsdt'

	def apic_login(apic: str, username: str, password: str) -> dict:
	""" APIC login and return session cookie """
	apic_cookie = {}
	credentials = {'aaaUser': {'attributes': {'name': apic_username, 'pwd': apic_password }}}

NWMichl / ise.yml

Created June 10, 2021 05:50

REST-Call to provision new device with Cisco ISE for TACACS access via Ansible

	# REST-Call to provision new device with Cisco ISE for TACACS access
	#
	# The 'NetworkDeviceGroupList' in the request body needs to be adapted to your environment, or substituted with variables.

	---
	- name: ISE
	hosts: test_switch
	gather_facts: false
	connection: network_cli
	vars:

NWMichl / main.py

Last active June 29, 2021 18:58

Chatbot demo to return the Cisco ACI Health Score to a Slack workspace using FastAPI

	from fastapi import FastAPI, Form
	import requests, json

	SLACK_VERIFICATION_TOKEN = "OnLmGpOwclDyXMNuNSRI5HAQ"
	APIC_URL = 'sandboxapicdc.cisco.com'
	APIC_USERNAME = 'admin'
	APIC_PASSWORD = 'ciscopsdt'

	def apic_login(apic: str, username: str, password: str) -> dict:
	""" APIC login and return session cookie """

NWMichl / diagrams.csv

Created October 31, 2021 07:05

Example how to create flow charts with diagrams.net and csv import

We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: Illegal quoting in line 7.

	## diagrams.net via CSV example
	## Menu: Arrange > Insert > Advanced > CSV
	##
	# label: %step%
	# style: rounded=1;fillColor=%fill%;
	# namespace: csvimport-
	# connect: {"from":"refs", "to":"id", "invert":true, "style":"curved=0;endArrow=blockThin;endFill=1;"}
	# padding: 15
	# ignore: id,fill,refs
	# layout: auto

NWMichl / check_website.py

Created March 13, 2022 16:33

Simple Website Checker: Compares the number of <keyword> mentions to a static value and notifies of changes by email

	import requests
	import smtplib
	from email.mime.text import MIMEText

	# Website Checker: Compares the number of <keyword> mentions to a static value and notifies of changes by email

	url = 'www.example.com'
	header = {'User-Agent': 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0'}

	keyword = 'example'