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Automation Infoblox Tines

Automating IOC Management with Tines + Infoblox Threat Defense

If you’ve ever had to manually wrangle external threat intel feeds — CSVs, JSON dumps, or raw text files full of Indicators of Compromise — you know it’s a pain. Some sources send you neat JSON, others hand you a 2 MB CSV. Then you’ve got to clean it

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Introducing MCP Servers in Tines — My Hands-On Guide

You know me — when a new capability drops that connects automation with AI, I have to play with it. And the launch of MCP servers inside Tines is one of those features that made me sit up and think, “This changes the game.” Let’s walk through what th

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Infoblox

The Ultimate Guide to Infoblox DDI WAPI Examples

Infoblox DDI API is an extension of the Infoblox DDI solution that provides a RESTful API interface for interacting with the Infoblox DDI system. The Infoblox DDI API allows you to perform various tasks, such as configuring DNS zones and records, man

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Automation Infoblox NetMRI

Getting Started with Infoblox NetMRI BootStrap

Introduction What is NetMRI BootStrap? Glad you asked, it allows you to create a local “repo” on a Windows/Linux machine for all your NetMRI Config Templates, Custom Issues, List, Policy/Rules, Script Modules, and Scripts. Here is a video

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MS Teams python

Office 365 Connectors from Microsoft Teams via Python API

I was going to look at creating a Slack Channel with just DNS news for my coworkers but then found out we are going to use Microsoft Teams.  Mmmmm M$ Teams, never was a fan of Microsoft but my good buddy told me to check it out. I was surprised

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Ansible Automation Infoblox

Infoblox and Ansible Updating a CNAME via Playbook

A good friend of mine asked me the other day, “How does one update a CNAME in Infoblox using an Ansible Playbook.”I told him to use the URI if it’s not available in the module, so he went looking on Google and didn’t come acro

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Automation Infoblox python

Introduction to Infoblox API (WAPI) using Python

We are going to take a look at Infoblox and infoblox-client using Python. In this article, I am going to give you examples using Python with direct “requests” REST API (WAPI) calls and the “infoblox-client” so you can choose w

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Ansible Automation Infoblox

Infoblox and Ansible creating "DHCP Range" with "templates"

Today we are going to use Ansible to create DHCP Ranges in Infoblox. If you haven’t done so, please review the previous post on “Getting started with Infoblox and Ansible.” We are going to create a new container “10.1.0.0/16

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Ansible Automation Infoblox

Infoblox and Ansible using “nios_next_ip”

Summary In the last post, we covered Infoblox and Ansible using “nios_next_network”. Today we are going to cover “nios_next_ip“. You can use this command to auto-create records such as “host”, “a record”, “aa

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Ansible Automation Infoblox

Infoblox and Ansible using "nios_next_network"

In the two previous posts, I took you through walking and getting started with Ansible and Infoblox. We are now going to look at tying those together with “nios_next_network”. Here will learn to lookup single and multiple networks at th

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Ansible Automation Infoblox

Infoblox and Ansible getting to know "lookup"

In the first post “Getting started with Infoblox and Ansible”, I showed you how to set up an Ubuntu box and installed Ansible. Got you started with your first “playbook” to talk to Infoblox NIOS Grid Master to return all the

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Ansible Automation Infoblox

Getting started with Infoblox and Ansible

Why Infoblox and Ansible Infoblox delivers actionable network intelligence to enterprise, government, and service provider customers around the world, as the industry leader in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (known as DDI). Ansible is one of th

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python SIEM syslog

Rolling your own SYSLOG and fake SIEM

So I was tasked with developing a way to show customers how Syslog messages are sent to their SIEM.  The problem I don’t have a SIEM at home 🙂 I decided to fake it some good buddies over at DC719 recommend some great software(al

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