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Introduction When developing automation for Cisco Intersight, understanding the API structure is crucial. The Intersight OpenAPI v3 specification contains over 5,000 schemas across 575,000+ lines of YAML—a daunting document to navigate manually. This article introduces a Python-based tool that makes exploring this specification efficient and practical. The Challenge Developing PowerShell functions for Intersight requires deep knowledge of: Object properties and their types Required vs. optional fields Relationship hierarchies (MoMoRef patterns) Enum values and defaults Inheritance structures through allOf references Without proper tooling, developers must: ...

Well, I’ve been playing around with PowerShell today. I had the task to move (as in change the IP address) two domain controllers into another VLAN. I could have done it the easy way and added the DNS servers by hand (by RDP’ing to each system having these particular DNS servers configured) - which wouldn’t have been very hard considering the domain only has 7 members at this point … ...

Well, I recently had the pleasant task of implementing SnapVault backups, that are being shipped to an offsite location with SnapMirror. That in itself isn’t the bad thing, however we decided against Protection Manager (since it was a charged product back when we decided on this). So I basically had the three tasks: Actually implement the SnapVault stuff (and learn my way around it and also document it) Write a bunch of scripts, that help us in creating scheduled backups of our databases Create a monitoring script, that’ll fit into our Nagios environment already in place Well, two months later (sadly it still has some kinks - I can’t figure out this one bug though for the life of it) and a few hundred hours of working on/with it and out came four things: ...

As you might have noticed, I’m using jQuery.Syntax as my Syntax Highlighting engine. As I recently started writing PowerShell scripts, I wanted syntax hightlighting for it. Since I knew, someone already wrote syntax highlighting for GeSHi for PowerShell (I am lazy after all!), I simply took the color scheme (shame on me), and made hacked ahead. After about three hours (yeah, I had some trouble with editing the wrong damn file), I came up with this: ...