On 10 August 2020, I took and passed the Automating Cisco Security Solutions (SAUTO) exam on my first attempt. In February of the same year, I passed DEVASC, DEVCOR, and ENAUTO to earn both the CCDevA and CCDevP certifications. You
DevAsc – List Consisting of Dictonaries
I was going through Nick Russo’s course Getting Started with Software Development Using Cisco DevNet at Pluralsight and one thing he went through was interacting with the DNA Center API. Using a call to /intent/api/v1/network-device, DNA-C will return a JSON
EIGRP Behavior with IP Unnumbered
Carl Zellers asked an excellent question on how EIGRP works when run over FlexVPN with IP unnumbered, considering that routers will not be on a common subnet. I thought this was a great question so I took some help from
Happy 10-year Anniversary Lostintransit
Wow! I can’t believe it. I’ve been blogging for 10 years! Where did time go? July 16th 2010 is when I posted the first time to this blog. It was a post saying “I’m game” and I included Radia Perlman’s
DevAsc – Python Script To Collect Show Commands Output
A colleague needed to connect to several Cisco devices, run some show commands, and save the output. I decided it would be good to practice my Python skills so I coded something together. Why didn’t do you do this in
DevAsc – Python Classes
Python classes are very useful when you need to create objects with the same characteristics. This is often referred to as Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Not having much of a programming background, I found classes to be a bit confusing,
DevAsc – Python Palindrome Challenge
Time for another Python challenge. This time it’s the palindrome challenge. What is a palindrome? A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward. Some examples are level, radar, stats.
DevAsc – Python Divisors Challenge
As part of Nick Russo’s DevAsc study plan, he recommends doing a few Python challenges to check your existing knowledge of Python. One of these is the Divisors challenge. The goal of of this exercise is to take a number,
IT Training and Running – Not So Different?
For those that follow me on Twitter, you probably know that I’m an avid runner and post some of my experiences there. My current goal is to become a sub 20 minute 5km runner, which is turning out to be
DevAsc – Some Handy Linux Commands
Introduction Linux is becoming more and more prominent in the networking industry. Many of us come from a mixed background and have varying levels of knowledge of Linux. I’ve been around Linux for a long time but really never got