Andrew Smalley
Former Solutions Engineer
Andrew possesses deep, authoritative experience in load balancing and network automation. His expertise is demonstrated by his contributions to automating complex deployments using API, CLI, JSON, SOAP, and PowerShell. With a strong background in Linux and embedded devices, Andrew provides trustworthy and detailed technical guidance on topics from SSL/TLS certificate management to highly automated, HA load balancer configurations. He also loves astronomy!
Latest posts
Integrations
A customer asked me how to export a list of SSL/TLS certificate expiry dates from our load balancer appliance...
How-tos
How to YAML your load balancer deployment
With this, we now have the YAML interface and a method to post the contents!..
Andrew Smalley
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3 mins
Automation
How to automate load balancer deployments (API / CLI / JSON / SOAP / PowerShell)
For our v8.4.1 release we added network, routing and HA functions to LBCLI, allowing you to completely automate the entire deployment from initial power-on to a fully configured HA pair...
Andrew Smalley
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16 mins
Automation
How to automate legacy load balancer deployments
Automation is very important for many organisations, which is why it's one of the core features of our upcoming V9 release...
Andrew Smalley
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8 mins
Healthcare
How to configure a DICOM ECHO health check for medical imaging systems
We thought it was important to have a specific health check built into our appliance for the commonly used DICOM protocol (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine)...
Andrew Smalley
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5 mins
Security
Shell-shocked by shell shock? I give you "CMD Caret" ^&
There seems to have been so much hype over the recent bash bug, shell shock! And there were all the people in the Microsoft world thinking YES we are so cool we are NOT affected by it!..
Andrew Smalley
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2 mins