network automation

October 24, 2019

DEVELOPER

Cisco DNA Center Template Archive/Restore

Background I have written a number of blogs about CLI templates in Cisco DNA Center.  These templates can be used as part of the “provisioning” workflow in the UI, or programmatically directly from the API. One question that often comes up is the ability to share templates through archive and restor…

October 16, 2019

DEVELOPER

Get a Basic Understanding of Meraki APIs

Register for the October 29th webinar When Meraki first stepped onto the scene, it was all about “the dashboard” and the idea that a controllerless, cloud-managed network would change the world (of networking, at the very least!). For Meraki customers, the cloud dashboard continues to be a true game…

October 14, 2019

DEVELOPER

Mentoring and Coaching for the “New World” of Network Automation

#init6 – the what, who, why, how, and when What? The networking industry is changing (don’t worry, I’m not going to wheel out the clichés about network engineers being CLI jockeys and having to change and adapt to become programmers). To paraphrase one of my #init6 colleagues, R…

October 14, 2019

DATA CENTER

AI-enabled Network Automation Requires the Right Tools for the Job

Amid the imperative of digital transformation and the enterprise adoption of multicloud, network agility and flexibility are prized. The right network-automation tools can help, contributing to agile operations while enabling the portability of applications and data between on-premises datacenters a…

October 3, 2019

DEVELOPER

Using the Cisco DNA Center SDK CLI Tool

Find previous blogs in this Cisco DNA Center blog series. API flexibility, with Linux shell CLI convenience Many of my blogs on the Cisco DNA Center API have been focused on Python scripts, most recently with the newly released SDK.  Thanks to Jose Bogarin and the team at Altus there is now a CLI wr…

September 30, 2019

DEVELOPER

Network Service Based Automation Part 1 – The Experience

Welcome back to my series on how we are putting network automation to work in the DevNet Sandbox.  This time around I wanted todive into some of the deep technical bits on how we’re using automation to configure and manage our network in a “Network Service” based model.   For this…

September 24, 2019

DEVELOPER

DevNet Certifications – Get Ready for the Enterprise Automation Exam

By now I hope you know about the brand spanking new DevNet Certifications, and I bet you can’t wait for them to come online. But on the off chance you don’t, make sure to check out DevNet’s new certification track offering courses, exams, and real-live Cisco certs for coders and developers. You can…

September 20, 2019

DEVELOPER

Fundamentals of Cisco DNA Center Plug-and-Play – Day 0 Networking

Background Network Plug-and-Play allows switches, routers, and wireless access points to be on-boarded to the network.  An agent in the device, connects to Cisco DNA center and downloads the required software and device configuration. In order for this to be truly zero-touch, a network connection is…

September 12, 2019

DEVELOPER

Cisco DNA Center Network Operations Center Dashboard

Background One common request from customers is a Network Operations Center dashboard view for Cisco DNA Center.  They would like this to be open-authentication (no need for credentials) and automatically refresh.  Critical data from Cisco DNA Center, such as network device and user health can be di…