Author name: Patrick Djemba.T

Patrick is a Serial Network Engineer who believes that the ultimate network system is a network of brains and how to build such a network is the ultimate challenge.

iTerm2 Customized for Network Engineers

If you’re someone like me who spends most of their day working on the command line interface (CLI) rather than the graphical user interface (GUI), you understand how easy it can be to overlook the root cause of an incident because you missed an error, a warning, and even important IP addresses, particularly when scrolling through debugging logs, syslog messages, interface lists, routing tables, and so forth. I found myself in that type of situation so often, especially during troubleshooting calls, that I realized I needed to take action. This led me to the customization of iTerm2…

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Review of “Network Programmability and Automation, 2nd Edition”

What is network programmability or network automation? Why do we need them? How do we go about to make them a reality in our environment or what tools can we use to enable it? These are the type of questions that Jason Edelman, Scott S. Lowe, and Matt Oswalt are exploring in the second edition of Network Programmability and automation…

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OpenSSH

Introduction As a NetOps Engineer, it is critical for me to be able to have a secure remote access to the devices I support. What would be the Ideal Solution for that you may ask? What about OpenSSH.OpenSSH (Open Secure Shell) is a freely available and Open Source implementation of SSH protocol family of tools

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