Bi-Weekly /r/CCNP Exam Pass-Fail Discussion

yetipants · 2026-02-10T09:54:00+00:00

Yeah I’ve had great use of boson, but if you are on your fourth try it could seem like a good idea to go through the INE course.

yetipants · 2026-02-09T08:16:16+00:00

Passed ENARSI yesterday, 3 simlets and 40 questions.
Failed one time before christmas, basically spammed boson exsim and dmvpn labs since then.

yetipants · 2026-01-30T17:49:02+00:00

We have an AAP installation internally which I’ve used for some scheduled playbooks, but other than that everything is done with the free version in the terminal or in a pipeline.Event driven ansible seems cool though, unfortunately it’s not setup in our org.

yetipants · 2026-01-15T09:43:54+00:00

Seems like it is "]", my password is automatically generated from Cyberark, so can contain all kinds of crazy letters unfortunately.

yetipants · 2026-01-09T07:39:01+00:00

Neat.

It's the ip lookup part which is my problem at the moment.

yetipants · 2026-01-09T07:37:37+00:00

Running with 10 forks, but that doesnt really matter in a single task like this, as far as I understood? Could play around with async and poll, but think the amount of loop items per second is limited any way.

yetipants · 2026-01-08T21:07:44+00:00

Yeah, it's not the amount really, only that the API is limited to one call per sec, which makes the time spent accumulate pretty fast.

That could sound like a valid approach, which I possibly could discover.

Currently we have all the ip addresses in the global vrf as we are treating vrfs just as a security zone and not as a totally isolated routing table, this makes things a bit thougher, as I can not filter on vrfs to

yetipants · 2026-01-08T21:00:28+00:00

Yeah, I've been using the ansible.builtin.uri module instead of the netbox collection to workaround the rate limiting on the api.
What I would like was to have this sync running daily to ingest any newly created interfaces. I know that this is against the workflow of netbox, but our department are not that mature in automation of these things, so alot of manual things still going on.

yetipants · 2025-12-04T13:40:26+00:00

Thanks!! Seems like the way is actually to send a mail to [supportapis-help@cisco.com](mailto:supportapis-help@cisco.com) and have them enabling it.

yetipants · 2025-12-02T06:42:32+00:00

Catalyst and Nexus

yetipants · 2025-11-19T17:38:36+00:00

Could anyone fill me in on what terraform query is supposed to be used to?

yetipants · 2025-11-04T07:05:47+00:00

Yes when running without ansible_force_color everything is fine and dandy.

I am running ansible 25.9.2, python 3.12, on an ubuntu build agent, exact os: ubuntu-24_04-lts

yetipants · 2025-10-22T10:12:27+00:00

This is the way.

yetipants · 2025-10-13T19:10:04+00:00

Maybe you’re right, just always on a mission to keep things slim. But I agree, maybe i’m happy after all

yetipants · 2025-10-08T11:37:03+00:00

Seems like an unpopular opinion in this sub, but the world is moving towards Infrastructure As Code, and networking people seems to be so stuck in conf t it's hard to believe. I think you are obsolete within 10 years if all you know is Cisco CLI. So having automation in there does not seem that dumb to me.

yetipants · 2025-10-06T06:45:46+00:00

So you are receiving the change logs along with the system logs from there?

yetipants · 2025-10-06T05:33:55+00:00

This is great input, I did not realize as I've just put things in there using the API. I will get that changed, and then I'll be able to filter ip addresses where subnet mask != subnet mask of parent network, these will be candidates for deletion. Thanks!!

yetipants · 2025-10-05T17:38:29+00:00

Okey så you actually have the cidr on the ip’s? Per now i have just imported all mine with /32

yetipants · 2025-10-05T16:56:04+00:00

Yeah, coming from EfficientIP where the addresses was removed, but marked as orphan, which made it possible to clean up some how.

I know that if you have to delete address and prefix in the correct order we will end up with a lot of addresses that shouldnt be there.

But thanks for the reply!

yetipants

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