While most of the vendors and their platforms (including DellEMC) are having Ansible modules published, but there are instances where functionality you’re trying to use isn’t covered in the available module or simply modules aren’t available at all. In such situations you’ve no choice than using Ansible URI […]
In this video we show how to leverage a popular Service Management tool such as ServiceNow as well as Ansible to allow end-users to consume on-prem physical IT resources in a cloud-like fully automated fashion from both the web interface and their mobile app. When people talk about […]
In the next article we will explore how to use Ansible to manage Brocade switches. But today we will talk briefly about the REST API. This is important because under the covers the Brocade Ansible modules use the REST API. This helps you (as it helped me) to […]
Python has a great package manager called “pip”. I guess if you have come to this page you don’t need many introductions. As we know it is a good practice to deploy Python applications in their own virtual environments. When running a virtual environment we typically have to […]
I recently got access to a Cisco MDS switch in the lab and I had the opportunity to play with it before it went into production. In particular it was a Connectrix MDS 9396T, which is a 32GB FC switch with up to 96 ports. The setup was […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (6th Part) of this blog series, we discussed how to prepare Ansible Tower/AWX with Dell EMC storage credentials. In this blog post, we will install Dell EMC PowerStore collection on Ansible AWX and go […]
In the last few weeks I have spent some time creating a small emulator of the DellEMC PowerStore’s REST API. This was done for some educational requirement, but it might benefit other people out there, hence I am making it public The emulator provides: 2 API calls to […]
There are many use cases where VxRAIL manager, VMware vCenter Console, or vSuite will not be enough for your goals in mind. So, for monitoring and management of your VxRAIL cluster, you can utilize the VxRAIL REST API for achieving your end goal in mind. There are multiple […]
When we think about automation use cases we typically think about automated provisioning and software releases. But this is only a portion of what engineers have to deal with. Sooner or later things break, pagers ring (yes, I guess I am old enough to know what a pager […]
In this article we will explore how to create incidents in ServiceNow using the REST API. This article was a stepping stone for this video that shows how to integrate ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams and alerts from infrastructure. The very first thing to do when working with a REST […]
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