Networking, Automation, Infrastructure as code, Telemetry
By now, many of us are familiar with using REST APIs to accomplish network automation tasks. But some may have wondered what the effort involved in providing one.
A fun way to explore ‘the other side’ is to write a useful little chatbot to integrate with your collaboration tool of choice. This blog shows how to connect Slack with Cisco ACI using Python and FastAPI.
Continue reading “Chatops with Python & FastAPI”
DevAsc has been a dream of mine since the beginning, but I never really found the time during this crazy year. When Cisco extended the deadline for the DevNetClassof2020 though, I took that as a sign and started my journey at short notice towards the end of 2020. Now you can learn what I think about the exam and the way I prepared.
Continue reading “DevNet Associate – Travel Report”
I know, even Cisco NX-OS has a REST-API and Streaming Telemetry these days.
But you, or established processes in your organisation, might find it helpful to handle all switch ‘Telemetry’ in the same way using good old per device SNMP polling. A quick poll* on the Twitters seems to validate that ~80% of production network metrics are still SNMP anyway.
*See what I did there?
Continue reading “Monitor Cisco NX-OS/ACI via SNMP and the TIG-Stack”
Modern controller based networks are quite different from a monitoring perspective, all the fancy network abstraction information is hiding behind this thing called API. SNMP might still be there, but is missing most of the interesting bits like health scores, faults and Tenant/App/Policy based metrics. And sometimes your legacy ehm, established NMS has no clue how to query or interpret those programmable interfaces…
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