python

July 16, 2018

DEVELOPER

Python Scripting APIs in Cisco DNA Center Let You Improve Effectiveness

Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs & sandbox Just before I left for Cisco Live US, I was given the chance to work with the APIs on Cisco DNA Center. Having never used Cisco DNA Center this was a quick learning curve, but once I started I could see…

July 11, 2018

DEVELOPER

Turbocharge Your Next Webex Teams Proof of Concept and Demo Development

Use this Script to Turbocharge Webex Teams Bot Development When I first started developing Webex Teams bots, I immediately was drawn to ngrok for its simplicity and power. It allowed me to rapidly start prototyping my bot and to do quick demos. It was simple to setup up very quickly and has a great…

June 4, 2018

DEVELOPER

Try Using Webex Teams APIs with AppDynamics to Create a Triage Webex Teams Space

Try this AppDynamics/Webex Teams Mashup What is great about Cisco Webex Teams is that I can start working on the desktop client and pick up where I left off when I go mobile via my iOS or Android client. Since both the desktop and mobile clients support notifications, I never have to worry about re…

May 30, 2018

DEVELOPER

Exploring Nornir, the Python Automation Framework

This blog contributed by Patrick Ogenstad. Patrick works at Conscia Netsafe, a Cisco Gold partner in Sweden. He also writes about automation and development on his blog Networklore    A while back a client asked me, “I’m guessing you are pretty good at Python multiprocessing?” I assumed that hi…

April 25, 2018

DEVELOPER

Render your first network configuration template using Python and Jinja2

We all know how painful it is to enter the same text in to the CLI, to program the same network VLANs, over, and over, and over and over, and over…. We also know a better way that exists, with network programmability, but this solution could be a few years out before your company adopts the newest n…

April 13, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Malware monitor – leveraging PyREBox for malware analysis

This post was authored by Xabier Ugarte Pedrero In July 2017 we released PyREBox, a Python Scriptable Reverse Engineering Sandbox as an open source tool. This project is part of our continuous effort to create new tools to improve our workflows. PyREBox is a versatile instrumentation framework based…

April 2, 2018

DEVELOPER

How to Deploy a UCS Manager Environment with Far Less Python Code

A co-worker sent me some infrastructure code to check out and get my opinion. The code was fine, but it was a lot of code… I mean a lot of code. Looking at the thousands of lines of purpose written code I started thinking that there could be a better way. The code was Python and used the UCS Python…

March 13, 2018

DATA CENTER

Programmable Infrastructure and the Cisco Intersight API

Cisco Intersight includes a RESTful API that supports the OpenAPI standard to provide full programmability and deep integrations with third-party tools and systems. Now partners and customers can begin to leverage this capability using the Intersight Python SDK. Guest Blogger: David Soper, Technical…

March 8, 2018

DEVELOPER

Why is Cisco Teaching Me Python? 

At a recent network programmability workshop one of the attendees asked, “Why is Cisco teaching me Python?” I was leading a workshop for a group of senior network engineers at a large financial company that was organized and sponsored by a member of their cloud leadership team.  This made the worksh…