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Closed Loop Automation With Anuta Networks’ Active Service Assurance

Ethan Banks · 5 minutes to read
Published February 3, 2023 · Updated February 3, 2023

Various vendors are offering closed loop automation tools today. Let’s take Anuta Networks’ Active Service Assurance (ASA). ASA is a relatively recent addition to Anuta’s ATOM platform. If you don’t know Anuta, they offer network automation aimed at service providers and large enterprises acting as service providers. Create a service, and ATOM will deploy it for you in a vendor agnostic way. ASA adds network monitoring to know that a deployed service is or is not meeting the required service level agreement (SLA). If an SLA is not being met, ASA can modify the configuration to bring the service back into compliance.

I, The Braggart – A Network Fable

Ethan Banks · 3 minutes to read
Published August 3, 2022 · Updated August 3, 2022

“Hey. I just got out of a meeting with Lewis.” I groaned inwardly. Lewis was my boss’s boss, and while Lewis was a fantastic human being, meetings with him were usually in the context of projects. Big ones. I put on a fake smile to mask creeping despair. “Oh? How did that go?”

Marketing Docs Are Not Written For Engineers

Ethan Banks · 2 minutes to read
Published July 14, 2022 · Updated July 14, 2022

Marketing words are not for you, the engineer. The dog whistle is blowing at a frequency your ears are not attuned to. These words are meant to entice folks with purchasing authority. Your boss. Or his boss. Or her boss.

I’ll Be At Cisco Live US Las Vegas 2022. See You There?

Ethan Banks · < 1 minute to read
Published May 27, 2022 · Updated March 1, 2022

I’m attending Cisco Live US 2022 in Las Vegas this June. I’ll be there on the Explorer Pass, crawling the World Of Solutions and chatting with anyone and everyone. If you’ll be there and want to meet up, DM me on Twitter or ping me on LinkedIn.

How To Work With A Sponsor For Your IT Blog

Ethan Banks · 7 minutes to read
Published April 26, 2022 · Updated April 26, 2022

You’ve got a niche blog where you write as a deeply technical expert in a IT field such as cloud, networking, storage, development, or security. Your audience is made up of fellow nerds in similar orbits. You’ve been writing for years, and have developed a faithful audience who reads most of your stuff. After all this time, a real-deal vendor appears, wanting to place a sponsored blog post on your hallowed site. Now what?

How To Use Grep + Regex To Match Non-200 HTTP Status Codes In Apache Server Logs

Ethan Banks · 3 minutes to read
Published April 6, 2022 · Updated April 7, 2022

Let’s say you want to see the requests Apache is upset about. How do you filter the logs to see every entry that doesn’t have a status code in the 200s? Depending on your Apache LogFormat, you could try…

sudo grep -E ‘\” [1345][01235][0-9] [[:digit:]]{1,8} \”‘ /var/log/apache2/access.log

Can Fantastical Openings Replace Calendly?

Ethan Banks · 3 minutes to read
Published March 29, 2022 · Updated August 3, 2022

As of August 2, 2022, *maybe* Fantastical Openings can replace Calendly for my scheduling needs. I need a chance to review, but it looks really promising…

Career Advice I’d Give To 20, 30 and 40-Something Year Old Me

Ethan Banks · 2 minutes to read
Published March 28, 2022 · Updated March 28, 2022

A list of career-related maxims easy to consume, but challenging to apply.

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