The ramblings of a computer geek
A plugin has been developed to allow the monitoring of the status of VPN Tunnels on the Palo Alto Firewall. The script uses the Palo Alto Firewall API to access the relevant part of the API “tree” to find the status of the VPN Tunnel(s). You can find the current version of the plugin here: … Read more
A simple function that takes a DateTime in the format: 2023-11-29T06:41:20-08:00 and outputs it in a much more pretty: 29/11/2023 06:41:20 -0800. As you can see its switching to the DDMMYY date format, followed by the time and finally the timezone.
Read in JSON from a file and convert into a Dictionary For example I was testing getting data from the Slack service status API, so wanted to simulate broken-ness to test my script was working correctly. I did this by creating a file with a sample set of JSON that showed a problem, as I … Read more
A simple HTML based status page tool that allows you as a system administrator to just edit a CSV file and have the tool generate you a pre-formatted HTML status page that you can upload to your favourite website. The tool uses Python to read the CSV files for the status (of services) and any … Read more
A very quick overview of how you can use Python virtual environments. https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/ Install the Virtual Environment First install the virtual environment. Create the Virtual Environment Let’s say I have a project called “python-static-site”, so we’ll create the virtual environment within this project directory along with all the source files. The second argument is the … Read more