Network Specialist & Consultant

A CCIE certified networks and systems specialist with 10 years of experience in designing, configuring, troubleshooting, and documenting diverse IT scenarios for ISPs, enterprises and startups.

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Aruba Instant On API

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Aruba’s Instant On product line consists of plug and play access points and switches that are managed from the cloud. The cloud management portal – located at https://portal.arubainstanton.com – is free and does not require purchasing any license.

While it provides an intuitive UI for setting up and managing networks, it is not conducive for automation. For example, if someone is managing many sites and needs to apply policies to all of them, or monitor their status, it would be very time-consuming and tiresome to do it manually.

OpenVPN Server for Mikrotik On Docker

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A convenient way to remotely access and manage a Mikrotik router that is behind NAT is to set it up as an OpenVPN client. It will then be accessible from the VPN server or by other VPN clients. In this guide we’ll document a simple procedure for setting up an OpenVPN server in Docker and configure it to work with Mikrotik.