The great thing about tools is that you often can misuse them for a completely different purpose. The end of a screwdriver makes a passable hammer; a butter knife can be a screwdriver, and even a ...

With multiple ways to accomplish the task, here's how to know the right route to take based on the situation. Central to the idea of DevOps is configuration as code, and PowerShell supports it with ...

I know of RANCID and I'm considering it.<BR><BR>In the past I have had basic scripts to login to my routers and have them do a 'copy running-config tftp' to keep a backup of my configs. As my network ...

Why settle for basic time-based triggers? Systemd timers offer better logging, dependency management, and you can run scripts "1 minute after boot." ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need to explain ...