Practical writeups on multi-vendor networks, fabric design, change detection, and the engineering behind running thousands of endpoints through one pipeline.
An honest map of the firewall policy management market: AlgoSec, Tufin, FireMon, the Skybox shutdown, and where a self-hosted visibility platform fits.
Read the pieceAn honest guide to SolarWinds, PRTG, Zabbix, LibreNMS, and Nagios, and where a self-hosted multi-vendor platform fits.
How stripping volatile fields and hashing the rest eliminates false-positive diffs, and why timestamp-based comparisons fail at scale.
Tracing a packet across IOS, NX-OS, and PAN-OS means reconciling three different ACL syntaxes, two route table formats, and zero shared conventions.
MAC tables, ARP, DHCP snooping, CDP/LLDP, 802.1X, and APIC hosts: stitched together in the right order, they replace a stale spreadsheet.
Configurable thresholds, cooldown windows, and atomic database operations keep your ACI fabric monitored even when controllers go down.
The operational pain that started SAMURAI, and the design decisions that let a single pane of glass replace Cisco Prime, Panorama, FMC, and SSH terminals.
Docker image pull, offline IEEE OUI database, and TLS certificate pinning: everything you need to run SAMURAI without internet access.
Spin up SAMURAI against your own fabric and watch it correlate in minutes.