So I’ve decided to work on my CCIE (again!)

Being that this is the year of SDN, and very few people can refrain from tossing in some kind of SDN related acronym at every meeting, I decided to take a break from the SDN chit-chat and delve into pure networking for a bit (if thats even possible.)Perhaps I’ll go for a certification, or two. … Read more

Automate backups to USB as soon as it is plugged in: Linux!

Simple’ were the requirements for this evening: When I plug in my USB drive into my Openstack(ubuntu) server, i want it to automatically start backing up vm-harddisks. Well, that sounds easy. But ubuntu doesn’t always assign the same device-node to my usb drive. Sometimes its /dev/sdc1 and sometimes its /dev/sdb1 … so first order of … Read more

fastsnmpy

Superfast parallel snmpbulkwalk Fastsnmpy is a module that leverages python-extensions that come with net-snmp and provide highly parallelized faster-methods to walk oid-trees on devices. In addition, it provides a method to bulkwalk mib-trees.. BulkWalk methods are missing from native python-bindings for net-snmp. By creating a wrapper around the GetBulk method instead, and maintaining state while … Read more