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Python Network Programming

By : Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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Python Network Programming

By: Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Overview of this book

This Learning Path highlights major aspects of Python network programming such as writing simple networking clients, creating and deploying SDN and NFV systems, and extending your network with Mininet. You’ll also learn how to automate legacy and the latest network devices. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll use Python for DevOps and open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Toward the end, you'll develop client-side applications, such as web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP, using socket programming. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have learned how to analyze a network's security vulnerabilities using advanced network packet capture and analysis techniques. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Practical Network Automation by Abhishek Ratan • Mastering Python Networking by Eric Chou • Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition by Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

The Cisco API and ACI


Cisco Systems, the 800-pound gorilla in the networking space, have not missed out on the trend of network automation. In their push for network automation, they have made various in-house developments, product enhancements, partnerships, as well as many external acquisitions. However, with product lines spanning routers, switches, firewalls, servers (unified computing), wireless, the collaboration software and hardware, and analytic software, to name a few, it is hard to know where to start.

Since this book focuses on Python and networking, we will scope this section to the main networking products. In particular, we will cover the following:

  • Nexus product automation with NX-API
  • Cisco NETCONF and YANG examples
  • The Cisco application-centric infrastructure for the data center
  • The Cisco application-centric infrastructure for the enterprise

For the NX-API and NETCONF examples here, we can either use the Cisco DevNet always-on lab devices or locally run Cisco VIRL. Since ACI is...