Netmiko with GNS3 console connection

The information provided in this post is for educational and informational purposes only. All rights to the software used belong to their respective owners. I’ve read quite a few tutorials on Netmiko with GNS3, but none of them show you how to directly utilize the console connection as the management interface for Cisco devices. In addition to the CiscoIosSSH driver, Kirk Byers also implemented the CiscoIosTelnet driver for establishing a connection to a Cisco device....

December 18, 2024 · 12 min

SSH local port forwarding with remote GNS3 server

After opening the GNS3 client and starting nodes, we primarily access the remote virtual devices with a console connection. This console connection is either Telnet, VNC, or SPICE. A console connection covers our requirement for physical access to the virtual devices, but today most administrative tasks are carried out with a link to the network management interface . I define the GNS3 server as remote if the gns3server process is not running on the host operating system....

June 24, 2019 · 17 min

PowerShell version of uptime command

I created a PowerShell advanced function that emulates the uptime command for Unix-like operating systems. The uptime command displays the current time, the length of time the system has been up, the number of users, and the load average of the system over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes. uptime output: 21:33 up 7 days, 11:10, 2 users, load averages: 0.05 0.08 0.08 My function returns a custom PowerShell object, so we have the option to pass it to the pipeline for further processing and/or formatting....

May 10, 2010 · 3 min

SSL VPN configuration for Cisco ASA with AnyConnect VPN client

This post is a guide to configure a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) device to perform remote access SSL VPN with the stand-alone Cisco AnyConnect VPN client. I followed a few tutorials on the web (including a couple of examples from the Cisco website), but I failed to implement a complete solution. The following recipe has been thoroughly tested and verified. Ingredients used for this post: Cisco 5500 Series ASA with software version 8....

December 12, 2009 · 2 min