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Practical Network Automation - Second Edition

By : Abhishek Ratan
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Practical Network Automation - Second Edition

By: Abhishek Ratan

Overview of this book

Network automation is the use of IT controls to supervise and carry out everyday network management functions. It plays a key role in network virtualization technologies and network functions. The book starts by providing an introduction to network automation, and its applications, which include integrating DevOps tools to automate the network efficiently. It then guides you through different network automation tasks and covers various data digging and performing tasks such as ensuring golden state configurations using templates, interface parsing. This book also focuses on Intelligent Operations using Artificial Intelligence and troubleshooting using chatbots and voice commands. The book then moves on to the use of Python and the management of SSH keys for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, all followed by practical use cases. The book also covers the importance of Ansible for network automation, including best practices in automation; ways to test automated networks using tools such as Puppet, SaltStack, and Chef; and other important techniques. Through practical use-cases and examples, this book will acquaint you with the various aspects of network automation. It will give you the solid foundation you need to automate your own network without any hassle.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Use cases

Let us see some additional use cases that are used frequently by a network engineer to perform certain tasks. These use-cases can be extended as applications to perform tasks at scale in any organization.

Interacting with SolarWinds

As a network engineer, there are times when we need to interact with monitoring tools for various tasks. Let's see a basic example in which we connect to the SolarWinds Server and fetch the IP address of a particular router.

The code to initialize the connection and fetch information from SolarWinds, is as follows:

import requests
from orionsdk import SwisClient
npm_server = 'npm_serverip'
username = 'test'
password = 'test123'
verify = False
if not verify...