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Common

Install bin from USB to Cisco Catalyst C9300

Assuming the switch needs to be wiped.

Step 1: Boot the switch and interrupt the boot sequence (Press the Buttons on the Front while booting)

Step 2: Inster USB Stick on the Front with matching Cisco Image (in .bin-Format). Check if you can see the file enter: “ls usbflash0: “

Step 3: Enter “emergency-install usbflash0:your-image.SPA.bin”

Step 4: Good Luck !

I have capture the process with OBS here, took a few minutes

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Common

App portals

A lot of my latest work involved creating app store / portals which present available applications to (internal) customers (see example below). Usually the design is based on a dashboard with the apps as cards or tiles, similar to lotus notes or windows. When creating your own framework you can embedd the portal in your environment and business processes and e.g. reuse existing iam mechanisms or track usage.

However if you can stick with a restricted standard you can also use commercial available software – or even open source. One example is backstage (from Spotify). Main idea is to have a service or software catalog. You can customize the cards in this solution to match your desired design by adding themes when creating elements (example from the demo):

If you need a similar solution (completely programmed and flexible or based on backstage.io with customization) you can contact me.

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Common Home-Server

Inplace update of Linux Mint to 22 / Wilma

Update triggered with the tool mintupgrade “sudo mintupgrade check”, if not present “apt install mintupgrade”

Was a bit scared when the Fonts were upgraded and the app names got crypted, but that was fixed during the update. You need to have a system snapshot with timeshift in order to perform the update. Update was performed on an AMD System 5950x with a RTX 3080 with encrypted disk. Took half an hour, but thats fine.

I think there will be an official guide in the next few days, but for me was smooth enough without the exception that my cable network needed to be added manually after the upgrade and howdy does not work anymore.