Information theft can result from router impersonation (man-in-the-middle attacks), address theft, address spoofing, and remote address resolution cache exhaustion (denial-of-service attacks). These security breaches can come from malicious or misconfigured users and can severely disrupt Layer 2 domains and networks in general. Nexus First-Hop Security (FHS) features enable better IPv4 and IPv6 link security and…

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Terraform is Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) open source tool created by HashiCorp. Terraform is used to automate and orchestrate the provisioning, configuration and management of resources and infrastructures across data centers and hybrid cloud environments. It can manage low-level components like compute, storage, and networking resources, as well as high-level components from the application stack and SaaS…

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Microsoft Powershell is a complex automation tool that can be used across platforms. It can be used in different ways, as a command-line shell, where provides convenient features such as command-line history, or support for command and parameter aliases and command pipelining. It can be used as a scripting language, as a component of a…

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PowerOn Auto Provisioning (POAP) automates the process of upgrading software images and installing configuration files on devices that are being deployed in the network for the first time. When a device with the POAP feature boots and does not find the startup configuration, the device enters POAP mode, locates a DHCP server, and bootstraps itself…

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The Cisco UCS Python SDK is a Python module that helps automate all aspects of Cisco UCS management, including server, network, storage, and hypervisor management. The bulk of the Cisco UCS Python SDK works on the UCS Manager’s Management Information Tree (MIT), performing create, modify, or delete actions on the managed objects (MO) in the…

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