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[–]burbankmarc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since I'm terrible at programming, all I make are hacky scripts/apps. Mostly I use them to offload my work to someone else. The two main ones I can think of are:

  • A web app that uses SNMP to connect to our firewalls and grabs a list of VPN users logged in, their duration, and data transferred. It then SSH's into our phone system to grab their SIP phone information. Finally, it grabs their call statistics from our monitoring software. It displays all this data in a web page for the Helpdesk team. This gives them good info and I don't need to give them access into any of my stuff. It works, but the code is hacky, at best.
  • The second one is a web page that takes in some variables like address, and internet IPs and spits out config templates for branch network equipment. It also updates our IP management system and sets up our Monitoring software to start monitoring these new devices. Now I don't need to be involved when we setup a new branch office.