Stuart's Semi-Professional Blog

 I found this tool and it was handy.

inventory.yml all: hosts: device1: interfaces: GigabitEthernet0: description: Internet Upli...

 I found myself needing to loop through a dictionary that looked like this: data = {     'key1': ['id1', 'subnet1'],...

I've come to prefer CLIs over GUIs. Rather than install Putty (or grab the portal version and copy it to the server I want to use), I pr...

One theory or idea is a   premise . Two or more theories or ideas are   premises . Premises  is also a plural noun referring to a piece of l...

tl;dr: Setup: mkdir my-new-project cd my-new-project python -m venv env Linux Usage: source env/bin/activate Powershell Usage: ./env/Scripts...

I'm a day late on this one, but at least it's good info: Original content is here for now. Download and install Postman , or use ht...

I ran out of space on an Ubuntu VM today and had to go through the process of expanding the hard drive.  First, we shut down the VM and reco...

 Turns out there's a lot of temporary data that is used by Docker. To clean it up, try the following ( courtesy Mr Davron ): Open an ele...

tl;dr: Powershell: docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/ansible/playbooks sweenig/ansible-docker playbook.yml -i inventory Linux: docker run --rm -v $...

If you follow this blog, you might already know that I'm a Docker fanboy. Docker containers are like micro-VMs, just lighter and faster....

 I recently started a trial with Beyond Trust for their Privileged Remote Access product (fka: Bomgar). It's an RMM. As with any tool I ...

I recently discovered a great way to make sure that Python scripts give you the information you need when there's a failure. I often run...

 Ever wanted to do a pcap on a Windows server, but didn't have permission to install an app like Wireshark? Here's how you do it: St...

I had someone ask me the other day if we could ingest alarms into LogicMonitor from their app. For example, if the app had an exception rais...

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tl;dr - Go here. I've been doing a lot of SNMP polling through Groovy lately. One of the methods I use most often is Snmp.walkAsMap(),...

tl;dr - the scripts are  here  and here . In the same vein as the previous post , this post will talk about SNMP enumeration. While the pr...

If you follow me on LinkedIn , you will have noticed that I changed jobs and moved from Houston to Austin. I'm now working for LogicMoni...

If you have the stuff to share: Download and install Resilio Sync After opening the app, click the plus sign in the top left corner and...

Saw an article bringing together all the trailers for all the Star Wars productions. They did the episodes 1-9 first, then the ancillary pro...

I have spent some time now working in the Oil Industry. I've been working in technology, so I haven't had much to do with actual oil...

UPDATE: This content is no longer maintained here. Instead go to  https://github.com/sweenig/RDPing .

Just a couple articles that have been camping out in my browser since I found them. They were very useful in helping me get docker doing use...

Today's blog post may have been posted before, but it's a really good one. If you are looking to get into object oriented programmin...

Continuing a previous post , I decided to add some CSS to make it obvious that you can click on the mapped links.  Here's the CSS: ...

This is pretty cool, although I haven't actually had a chance to use it since most of my circuits don't involve much signal processi...

I've been keeping this tab open on my browser because I wanted to work out the solution myself. I finally figured it out (2 years later...

I had to explain Boolean arithmetic the other day to non-makers. These guys didn't have any real experience with electric logic circuits...

When 3D printing, there's usually a jump in cost and complexity for printers that can print multiple colors. As a workaround, you can pa...