Micetro

Micetro is an extremely powerful orchestration tool. Providing a single GUI/API across disparate DNS & DHCP systems, together with discovery and IPAM. Giving that single pane of glass view into the entire network.This works great for centralising administration, audit logging plus wrapping around Role Based Access even for DNS and DHCP platforms that don’t natively support this. What isn’t necessarily fully appreciated (though I know some of our customers are doing this!) is how you can leverage the Micetro API, together with the DDI data Micetro has visibility into to help streamline Network provisioning. In order to highlight this, I’ve put together some sample Python code, built around the Micetro API to automate the provisioning of network interfaces on some VyOS devices.[ VyOS (https://vyos.io ) is an open source router/firewall. The command syntax is very similar to Junos OS] Although this example is written for VyOS I’ve tried to make the code easy to adapt for other platfor

I’ve been meaning to share this for a while…..One of the things that makes Micetro really useful when you start using it for Orchestration of your DNS and DHCP infrastructure is the centralised audit log for all DDI related changes. i.e. Who did what when!Normally this is only accessible via the Micetro GUI. However as the GUI is built on the API this can also be exposed using the GetHistory API command. In order to help illustrate this I’ve written a simple python script which can be run/scheduled from within Micetro which can read the audit log and send this to an external syslog server. Under the hood it uses the Python logger module which can support many other formats including HTTP and SMTP for example.https://github.com/worrabkram/audit2syslogPlease note…This is a personal project not linked to BlueCat.No warranty or support implied.Hopefully you find this usefulMark

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I’m often asked when I speak to customers and prospects about how to use the Micetro REST API. Hopefully this little guide will help…Getting started with Micetro APIs Some background on the various APIs that Micetro supports for automationhttps://docs.menandmice.com/en/latest/guides/user-manual/automation/Public link to REST/SOAP API documentation for all Micetro versionshttps://api.menandmice.com/Although all APIs continue to be supported it’s recommended going forward that customers focus on the REST API Swagger InterfaceMicetro includes a swagger interface which as well as documenting the REST API also allows you to test and try out API calls. This can be accessed by appending /mmws/api/doc/ to your Micetro web gui. Eg:http[s]://micetro.yourdomain.tld/mmws/api/docMicetro swaggerStarting with version 11.1 we now support Bearer tokens. Follow the link to sessions Eg:Fill out your credentials then click execute –Then click on authorise and copy the session returned in the response body