My journey with Network & Cloud Automation
Cisco does have a bug toolkit to programmatically fetch the vulnerability information but it doesn’t have any such API for SDWAN vulnerability information yet. So I had the option to create a web scraper to fetch that information into an excel sheet and update it automatically at a click of a button. Let’s take a…
We have covered how to use csv modules in the previous two posts. In this post, we will try to make the job easier using the python pandas library to read write csv with python for Network Automation. In my opinion, pandas is the one-stop-shop for all needs when you are dealing with tabular data…
In the previous post, we have seen how to leverage the TEXTFSM parser with netmiko. In this post, we will see how to install and parse data with Netmiko Genie plugin into a formatted data structure that we can easily export to a datasheet. List of available GENIE PARSERS. Step1:- Install pyats and netmiko You…
In Part1 of this series of network automation, we saw how to read device data from csv files and build a dictionary of that data so that we can have netmiko leverage that directly from the csv sheet rather than building the dictionary manually for each device. Now, we are going to see how to…
We sure can build static dictionaries to interact with network devices for the purpose of network automation. How to Automate Network Devices using Python Netmiko Part I In the real world, this is not practical, we almost always will be required to read the device data from an inventory source which most of the time…
The first and the foremost is setting up a lab device for practising network automation. No matter how much theory you read but at the end of the day, its the actual hands-on that will teach you network automation. Cisco Always ON Devnet Sandbox Lab is one the great ways we can leverage to get…