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Exploring the Intersight API with a Python-Based Schema Browser

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A comprehensive guide to using a Python tool for exploring Cisco Intersight's OpenAPI specification and accelerating PowerShell module development.

PowerShell - and how to add new DNS servers to remote systems

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:14:23 +0000

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 …

Implementing SnapVault backups - the hard way

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:25:10 +0000

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:

PowerShell brush for jQuery-Syntax

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:56:03 +0000

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: