Current Events > Just used python to help troubleshoot a real-world networking scenario. Woo.

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Man, I've come so far. I got a message from someone on another team about needing to analyze network traffic for a certain device that wasn't working. I pulled up my Aruba packet capture python script. I put in the IP address of the switch and the port I want to capture on, then the script logs into the switch and configures the packet capture so that the switch sends the captured traffic back to my laptop. All I have to do then is just open up Wireshark and make sure it's ready to show the captured traffic. Currently, the script configures the packet capture, waits 5 minutes, then removes the packet capture from the switch. I can change the timer on it pretty easily if I want it to run for more or less time.

Based on the traffic pattern, I was able to identify that they had an incorrect subnet mask. They had already corrected it before I joined the call, but the device was still acting as if the subnet mask was wrong. They ended up "reloading software" on the device and it started working.

Man, I'm proud of myself. Two months ago, I had no idea how to even read Python. Now I'm starting to use python scripts in the real world to help fix problems. This is great.

Congrats man! You're gonna get far with these skills. Sounds so good hearing someone else's progress.

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Yeah... I've definitely taken down a lab store by capturing on a port that was receiving too much traffic and overloading the switch. Gotta be careful with it all the same.

Congrats

Congrats man. I'm (slowly) trying to teach myself some Python too. Nowhere near ready to use it in a practical scenario yet though.

Congratulations!