A view point exploring why network automation should be an overlay rather than replacement of traditional networking skills.
Upgrading comware IRF stacks with no downtime (kind of)
Upgrading a stack of comware switches is easy. Upload the file and reboot. If you serve users who might notice 10-15 minutes down time you need to read this article to understand how to perform an (almost) zero downtime upgrade.
The Single Source of Truth
Why maintaining a single instance of each set of data is one of the most fundamentally important design considerations when implementing network automation
Enabling Traceroute on Comware Switches
Unlike any other vendor I've worked on, comware switches and routers do not reply to traceroute attempts by default. If you traceroute through a router you'll get no response on that hop: C:\>tracert switch1 Tracing route to switch1 [10.4.228.2] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms router2 [1.1.1.76] 2... Continue Reading →
Automatically Created Ansible Host Files from HPE IMC
An ansible playbook that uses the RESTful API in IMC to create an ansbible host file
Constantpinger 