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Continue reading →: High Availability (HA) configuration for Cisco Meraki MX67
⚙️ About HA in Meraki MX67 🛠 How to configure HA in Meraki MX67 ✅ 1. Physical setup Tip: Make sure the heartbeat cable is direct or via switch but must be in the same VLAN/subnet. ✅ 2. Configure in Meraki Dashboard ⚠ Both MXs must be in the same…
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Continue reading →: How to set a bandwidth restriction per individual user on Sophos Firewall (SFOS v19.5 or v20.x)
✅ Goal: Limit each user to: (You can change numbers as needed.) 🛠 Step-by-step Step 1: Create Traffic Shaping Policy ✅ Save Step 2: Apply to individual users Repeat for each user you want to limit. Step 3: Confirm the firewall rule matches Bandwidth limit only applies to traffic that…
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Continue reading →: High Availability status in Aruba Mobility Controller
To check the High Availability (HA) status in an Aruba Mobility Controller, you can use the CLI (Command Line Interface) or the Web UI. Here’s how you can do it: 🔧 Using CLI (SSH or Console): show ha This will display the HA configuration and status including: 💡 Additional Useful…
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Continue reading →: SNMP v2c on Aruba (HPE) switch
Here’s how to configure SNMP v2c on an Aruba (HPE) switch, specifically for the ArubaOS-Switch series (formerly HP ProCurve). 🔧 SNMP v2c Configuration Steps – ArubaOS-Switch (CLI) 1. Enable SNMP Service (if not already enabled) switch(config)# snmp-server 2. Set the SNMP Read-Only Community String switch(config)# snmp-server community public operator-unrestricted 3.…
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Continue reading →: 🤖 Bridging Manual AWS Infrastructure to Terraform: Automating Security Group Imports with Python
In modern cloud engineering, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is more than a best practice—it’s a necessity. But what happens when your AWS infrastructure already exists, created manually through the console or scripts, long before Terraform entered the picture? This blog post walks through a hybrid solution: using Python and Boto3…
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Continue reading →: Dual internet configuration using BGP in cisco router
To configure dual internet connections using BGP on a Cisco router for redundancy and failover, follow these key steps and considerations: Basic BGP Configuration Establish BGP Sessions with Both ISPsConfigure BGP neighbors using the ISPs’ AS numbers and your assigned ASN. For example:router bgp 65001neighbor 203.0.113.1 remote-as ISP1_ASNneighbor 198.51.100.1 remote-as…
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Continue reading →: Enhanced Python script for Meraki Switch with VLAN deletion or port monitoring
🧰 Full Python Script – Meraki Switch Automation import requests# ConfigAPI_KEY = “YOUR_MERAKI_API_KEY”ORG_ID = “YOUR_ORG_ID”NETWORK_ID = “YOUR_TEMPLATE_BOUND_NETWORK_ID”DEVICE_SERIAL = “YOUR_SWITCH_SERIAL” # Example: Q2XX-XXXX-XXXXBASE_URL = “https://api.meraki.com/api/v1″HEADERS = { “X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key”: API_KEY, “Content-Type”: “application/json”}# — VLAN FUNCTIONS —# ✅ Create VLANdef create_vlan(vlan_id, name, subnet, appliance_ip): url = f”{BASE_URL}/networks/{NETWORK_ID}/vlans” payload = { “id”: vlan_id, “name”:…
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Continue reading →: Python script using the Meraki Dashboard API to automate switch port configuration and VLAN creation in a template-bound network.
🔐 Step 1: Setup Make sure you have: 🧠 Step 2: Python Script import requests# Replace with your Meraki API keyAPI_KEY = “YOUR_MERAKI_API_KEY”ORG_ID = “YOUR_ORG_ID”NETWORK_ID = “YOUR_TEMPLATE_BOUND_NETWORK_ID”DEVICE_SERIAL = “YOUR_SWITCH_SERIAL” # e.g., Q2XX-XXXX-XXXX# Meraki base URLBASE_URL = “https://api.meraki.com/api/v1″# HeadersHEADERS = { “X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key”: API_KEY, “Content-Type”: “application/json”}# Step 1: Create VLANdef create_vlan(vlan_id, name,…
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Continue reading →: How to Create and Modify Meraki Switch Templates
🧩 1. What is a Meraki Switch Template? In Cisco Meraki, templates are configurations that can be applied across multiple networks, especially useful in large-scale deployments to ensure consistency. 🖥️ 2. Creating a Switch Template (via GUI) ⚙️ 3. Modifying a Switch Template (via GUI) 🔧 4. Creating/Modifying Switch Templates…
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Continue reading →: How to enable Meraki API
The Meraki API allows you to automate and manage your Meraki network programmatically. It is a RESTful API that provides access to Meraki dashboard data and configurations. 1. Enable Meraki API Before using the API, you must enable it in the Meraki Dashboard: 2. Generate an API Key ⚠️ Security…
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