Python Python Getters, Setters and @property Decorator When I first started working with Python classes, some of the most confusing topics were getters, setters, and @property. There Suresh Vinasiththamby Nov 1, 2026 7 min read
Palo Alto Panorama Device Groups and Templates (with examples) Overview People who follow my blog may probably know that I'm a big fan of Cisco ASA firewalls Suresh Vinasiththamby Nov 1, 2026 8 min read
Ansible-Course Getting Structured Output from Network Devices with Ansible This post is part of an ongoing series on Ansible, and you can find all the other posts in the Suresh Vinasiththamby Nov 1, 2026 12 min read
paid Ansible-Course Pre and Post Checks with Ansible This post is part of an ongoing series - see all the posts below. Ansible Course In the previous part, we Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 31, 2026 17 min read
paid Ansible-Course Validating Your Network with Ansible Assert This post is part of an ongoing series - see all the posts below. Ansible Course In the previous part, we Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 28, 2026 21 min read
Palo Alto How to Protect GlobalProtect Portal from Brute Force Attacks? As soon as you configure GlobalProtect and go to the monitor tab, you will see hundreds or even thousands of Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 27, 2026 5 min read
Palo Alto Global Protect Internal Host Detection & Internal Gateways - Lessons Learnt I already had Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN configured with an external gateway and portal, allowing me to connect back to Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 27, 2026 6 min read
paid Ansible-Course Building an OSPF Network from Scratch with Ansible This post is part of an ongoing series - see all the posts below. Ansible Course So far in this series, Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 26, 2026 21 min read
Firewall FortiGate Radius Administrator Login with Cisco ISE Let’s assume a simple scenario. You have two different teams managing your FortiGate firewalls. One team is made up Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 26, 2026 10 min read
paid Ansible-Course Useful Ansible Filters for Network Engineers This post is part of an ongoing series - see all the posts below. Ansible Course In the previous part of Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 26, 2026 14 min read
Palo Alto Managing Palo Alto App-ID Changes Using Threat Signature Indicators (TSID) If you rely heavily on Palo Alto App-IDs, you know the challenge of managing new and modified App-IDs. Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 25, 2026 5 min read
Containerlab Running Containerlab in macOS (Cisco IOL/cEOS) Let me start by saying that I usually run Containerlab on a dedicated Ubuntu 22.04 VM, which sits on Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 25, 2026 9 min read
Homelab Proxmox Backup Server Setup If you follow my blog, you may know that I recently migrated to Proxmox as my hypervisor, and I absolutely Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 24, 2026 11 min read
members Palo Alto Palo Alto Global Protect VPN Configuration Example In this blog post, we will cover how to configure Palo Alto Global Protect VPN. We'll go through Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 21, 2026 14 min read
paid Ansible-Course Working with Filters in Ansible This post is part of an ongoing series - see all the posts below. Ansible Course We've already used Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 18, 2026 15 min read
paid Ansible-Course Ansible - Adding Arista and Multi-Vendor Playbooks This post is part of an ongoing series - see all the posts below. Ansible Course So far, every device in Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 18, 2026 16 min read
BGP BGP Multi-Homed with Two ISPs and Two Routers If you are a Network Engineer working for an Enterprise, you may not work with BGP as often as someone Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 18, 2026 24 min read
Palo Alto Palo Alto How to Configure SSL Decryption? Most websites we access today use HTTPS, and to fully leverage a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) like Palo Alto, inspecting Suresh Vinasiththamby Oct 18, 2026 9 min read