March 2026
Month Overview
Focus Areas: VyOS migration, ISE TAC case, CLI mastery, Monad SIEM evaluation
Status: Active
Key Themes
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VyOS Migration - Cut over from pfSense to VyOS for routing/DHCP/DNS
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ISE Operations - TAC case, MNT health, EAP-TLS troubleshooting
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CLI Mastery - Advanced bash patterns, process substitution, awk/sed drills
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Documentation - Codex expansions (PowerShell, Bash, networking)
Entries
Week 1 (Mar 1-2)
| Date | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Worklog |
RHCSA study, kvm-02 IPMI config, Supermicro hardware docs |
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Worklog |
HA infrastructure deployment, iPSK testing prep |
Week 2 (Mar 3-9)
| Date | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Worklog |
PowerShell codex enhancements, documentation restructuring |
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Worklog |
ISE 3.5 Migration, IPMI troubleshooting, runbook updates |
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WLC HA SSO troubleshooting, WLC-02 single NIC fix |
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Worklog |
VyOS migration cutover, WLC kvm-02 migration, AP join fix |
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Worklog |
iPSK Manager ISE ODBC integration, VyOS migration continuation |
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Worklog |
VyOS Deep Dive, VRRP HA Testing, Wazuh Recovery |
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Report |
Week of 2026-03-03 to 2026-03-09 |
Week 3 (Mar 10-16)
| Date | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Worklog |
netapi CLI expansion, Monad/GitHub/GitLab/Gitea integration |
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Worklog |
EAP-TLS chain fix, Vocera triage, Monad evaluation, TAC case |
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WiFi DHCP failure investigation, RCA process |
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Remote work, backlog audit, Ubuntu installs |
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Worklog |
Weekend - X1 Carbon installs, regex training, backlog audit |
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Worklog |
ISE incident prep, P50 Ubuntu migration, Steam dependency hell |
Week 4 (Mar 17-23)
| Date | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Worklog |
Carryover backlog attack, P50 Steam test, professional priorities |
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Worklog |
Don Quijote migration (126 chapters), chapter template enhancements |
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Worklog |
Don Quijote DELE practice, lab notebook system, nav sync automation |
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OpenClaw evaluation, regex carryover, DELE writing practice |
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adoc script portability, PDF dark theme, regex carryover |
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Worklog |
Partials attribute split, antora.yml maintenance, gopass v3 org |
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Worklog |
Sustainable worklog system, modular partials architecture |
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Document |
Session knowledge capture (Termux, Vault SSH, gopass, DELE) |
Week 5 (Mar 24-30)
| Date | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
Worklog |
Claude Code course, AsciiDoc mentoring, carryover audit |
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Worklog |
Heavy carryover, Claude Code Features implementation |
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Worklog |
netapi commercialization push, API mastery curriculum |
Highlights
Infrastructure
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VyOS cutover - Migrated from pfSense to VyOS for router/firewall
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BIND HA - bind-01 + bind-02 with AXFR zone transfers
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Vault HA - vault-01/02/03 Raft cluster
Work (CHLA)
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ISE TAC Case - S1 case for ~500 endpoint auth failures
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Root cause - MNT RabbitMQ at 109% CPU, resolved via node reboot
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Documentation - TAC case prep template with MNT diagnostics
CLI Mastery
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Process substitution -
diff <() <()patterns -
comm - Set operations for file comparison
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Advanced awk - Field extraction, pattern matching, NR/NF
Documentation
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PowerShell codex - Network, AD, certificates, remoting
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Bash codex - Math, streams, ANSI, jq/yq patterns
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Networking - nmcli, ip command, ss, troubleshooting
Carried Forward
Items still pending at end of March:
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k3s NAT verification (since 03-09)
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Wazuh indexer recovery
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PacketFence VM deployment
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Keycloak rebuild
Statistics
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
Worklogs |
26 |
Documents |
1 |
Reports |
1 |
Case Studies Created |
7 |
RCAs |
3 |
Last updated: 2026-04-08