Zsoldiers Tech Blog

Time 2020-11-23 21:07:39

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Summary: I ve been working in technology for about 20+ years now, so it ll be difficult for me to break old habits w/ terminology, but I m posting this here in the hopes that I can continue to adjust to new dynamics. Nothing really technical here, but if you happen to commit/modify code anywhere, here is a good starting point to adjust the terms you use in your code. Also, a reference point to adjust your spoken vernacular to be inclusive to all those around you. Information shared from the VMware vExpert program . Words Recommended Alternate Other Situational Alternates if Recommended Alternate does not work abort stop cancel halt prematurely end prematurely stop prematurely blacklist denylist (n) block (v) deny (v) blackout restrict (v) restriction (n) outage (n) kill stop halt master primary main original control plane / control plane node Summary: Note to self, cut back on the reddit . It s a time suck and VMware questions are popping up that I have time to answer w/o the shadow of a retired LucD bot lurking. Anyway, someone asked if you could update segment profiles, so I got curious and followed the rabbit. Here is the example I came up with. It s straight powershell core, so no special modules needed, not even vmware.powercli. GASP! Summary: Basically ran into a weird issue where a T1 was not advertising a very specific subnet when configured on segment. Come to find out when looking at the advanced networking section of that T1, there was a route advertisement rule that denied that subnet from being advertised up. Since the T1 was created via the policy API, you cannot simply delete it via UI. Have no idea how that route advertisement rule even got there, but something tells me a bug exists. Unfortunately have no idea how to reproduce it. [ Update: I have a hypothesis on how it got there now. When you instantiate a DHCP server via the policy engine, whatever network you place on and attach to a T1 shows up here. This is likely why the network was here. What seems to have happened is that deletion of the DHCP server did not happen cleanly and left that artifact there. ] Workaround: Long story short, you have to call the API to do so. Here is a powershell snippet to be able to do so. Summary: Running the above cmdlet and passing what is apparently the only required parameter of name, results in the above obscure error. It refers to a parameter that doesn t appear to exist for the cmdlet. There is also the -migration parameter that looks for a HCXMobilityGroupMigration[] object array that no other HCX cmdlet provides. Long story short, informed VMware, they are going to fix the cmdlets and their documentation. In the meantime, here are some examples that VMware s GSS shared to be able to use the New-HCXMobilityGroup cmdlet. Here is the code: Summary: Basically had a script to output Distributed Firewall, but not individual ESG based firewall rules. Turns out, I could re-use some of what I had made for DFW , but had to rewrite ALOT surprisingly. So here is an ESG based version. The script was written and run using Powershell 7 Core, latest PowerCLI and PowerNSX. It might work on other revisions, but I m too lazy to back test. You can export to CSV as well. Summary: I m usually texting via my Mac most of the time. So when I receive a text from a known number and it s not translated/associated to a name, it raises questions for me. Why? Long story short, one of my accounts (gmail) in this case where most of my contacts are stored wasn t syncing properly. Don t know why, but here is what you can look for to resolve the issue. Things to Check: Launch the Contacts App Preferences Accounts Make sure all accounts are enabled In my case, one gmail account showed enabled, but this fetch dropdown was missing. I had to re-enable this particular account in systems preferences for it to wake-up . See Step 2. Launch System Preferences Select Internet Accounts Make certain all accounts have Contacts selected If they are, as they were in my case, toggle the checkbox off, then back on. After fixing this, everything started syncing properly. Unsure what cause The VPN client was unable to successfully verify the IP forwarding table modification. A VPN connection will not be established. Summary: I started running into issue utilizing Cisco AnyConnect on my Mac basically complaining about not able to overwrite IP forwarding tables. This was on 4.6.x. Since my VPN endpoints were not providing me w/ an updated client and w/ no access to Cisco Anyconnect downloads, my only option was to try openconnect. It was totally worth it, here is why and how to set it up. PreReqs: Homebrew Installing OpenConnect: Launch MacOS Terminal brew install openconnect Getting VPN IP s/DNS Endpoints from AnyConnect: The information is typically located in your profile xml files located here: /opt/cisco/anyconnect/profile/somethingsomething.xml In the xml file, you are looking for HostAddress typicallyaDNSName.com /HostAddress entry. These are your VPN endpoints that you would need to pass to openconnect. UsingPostings on this site are on my own accord and do not represent positions, strategies, or opinions of my employer.Hey there, I m Chris. I m a Principal Software Engineer in Microsoft's Azure Dedicated group living in Atlanta, Georgia. I am a fan of technology, fitness, and video games. I m also interested in food and travel.

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