https://lo5t.com/Patrick LewisIT Systems Engineer / Terraform and OSS enthusiast 2024-03-19T07:24:04-07:00 Patrick Lewis https://lo5t.com/ Jekyll © 2024 Patrick Lewis /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png Bank-to-Cloud VPN: Cost-Saving Options for Integrating AWS with AT&T Netbond2021-06-18T10:00:00-07:00 2022-05-28T21:38:59-07:00 https://lo5t.com/posts/Bank-to-Cloud-VPN-Cost-Saving-Options-for-Integrating-AWS-with-AT&T-Netbond/ Patrick Lewis One of the first things we evaluate with a new PortX customer is their network access. Most connect via Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) VPN tunnels to an on-premise firewall. However, we recently established a connection for a new customer with AT&T’s Netbond cloud networking solution, which presented our team with exciting new integration alternatives. We’ll cover the unique options for... Using Github Issues as a Jekyll frontend with Github Actions2021-05-27T10:00:00-07:00 2022-05-28T21:38:59-07:00 https://lo5t.com/posts/Using-Github-Issues-as-a-Jekyll-frontend-with-Github-Actions/ Patrick Lewis Recently I switched from WordPress to using Jekyll via Github pages. I quickly got into the habit of dumping blog post ideas into issues on my blog’s repo. It’s a great way to iterate on them and get feedback on them before actually publishing them. The ideas keep accumulating, now how to get them published quickly? By automating it a much as possible! While doing some research on how I coul... Datastore inactive and device cannot be brought online2015-06-28T10:00:00-07:00 2022-05-28T21:38:59-07:00 https://lo5t.com/posts/datastore-inactive-and-device-cannot-be-brought-online/ Patrick Lewis If your shared storage or volumes go offline while VMs are running, but after recover these volumes and rescan adapter, datastores still stay in inactive state and you’re seeing the following in the /var/log/vmkernel.log: ScsiDevice: 5192: eui.3f7999dba06450376c9ce9006ec1b4eb device :Open count > 0, cannot be brought online it may indicate that the virtual machine is stuck or specifically ... Troubleshooting Locked-out Accounts in a Windows 2008/R2 Domain2014-03-27T10:00:00-07:00 2022-05-28T21:38:59-07:00 https://lo5t.com/posts/troubleshooting-locked-out-accounts-in-a-windows-2008r2-domain/ Patrick Lewis One of my colleagues’ account was constantly being locked out. I suspected that he had used his account to run a service, or other automated task on a server and I needed to find out which one. As I’d previously used the Microsoft “Account Lockout and Management Tools”, I downloaded the latest version from here (http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=18465). There are two usef... Show Command Multiple Filtering2014-03-27T10:00:00-07:00 2022-05-28T21:38:59-07:00 https://lo5t.com/posts/show-command-multiple-filtering/ Patrick Lewis Normally when we do show command we make use of the | to filter and put in keywords after like include, exclude, begin and section. As we all know “include” means show only that matches the string like for the example below. R1#sh run | inc CISCO neighbor CISCO peer-group We can do some multiple command filtering like the example below using the “include” keyword. Let’s say we want to see th...