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Intro So this year I’ve had the opportunity to work with Arista quite extensively and finally check out what all the hype is about. A year later, in a galaxy very close and very near, I’ve gotta say these boxes rock! ✨😎 There’s alot of cool things about Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), but this time around I want to share something usable in day-to-day management for my fellow engineers doing config cleanup and MACD operations....

Intro Been working with Palo Alto firewalls quite a bit and have found that the best way to backup and archive configuration files is through the CLI. This way, it can be just a another simple text file along with the rest of the network gear (routers, switches, etc). Here’s how to do that. Prep Work Disable Paging First thing you want to do is disable paging. This will dump the entire config at once without having to spacebar through it....

Reboot Hey, its been a while. ..So I decided to start writing again, posting some of the cool things I’ve been working over the years in IT and Engineering. Figured a fresh start would be cool. Been getting into DevOps/GitOps lately and that has been alot of fun finding the ways to bridge that in with Network Engineering and building things at home. Hopefully you’ll find something interesting here.