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NetBox as Inventory Source of Truth for Cisco NSO
NetBox as Inventory Source of Truth for Cisco NSO
Both Cisco NSO and NetBox offer robust APIs and well formatted data models. See how to keep the device inventory in your Cisco NSO servers accurate based on your NetBox based Source of Truth.
April 22, 2021
How can I automate device configurations using CML2?
How can I automate device configurations using CML2?
Cisco Modeling Labs is a great tool for learning all aspects of networking, including automation. Hank discusses options for making the setup and management of your lab topology fast, easy, and automated.
Feb. 26, 2021
Read-Only YANG Leaves: Where Does the Data Come From?
Read-Only YANG Leaves: Where Does the Data Come From?
DevNet's Hank Preston digs into another user's question related to model driven programmability. Do you have a question about network automation? You can Ask Hank!
Jan. 19, 2021
Native, IETF, OpenConfig… Why so many YANG models?
Native, IETF, OpenConfig… Why so many YANG models?
Which YANG model to use for your project? Ask Hank takes a look at your options, and how model driven programmability is a foundational technology for the automation engineer.
Jan. 11, 2021
How can I automate a MAC address interface report?
How can I automate a MAC address interface report?
Hank's back to answer another question from the community. This time we use automation to associate ARP data, MAC addresses, and network interfaces.
Dec. 22, 2020
Industrial NetDevOps Enables Your Industrial Network with Programmability and Automation
Industrial NetDevOps Enables Your Industrial Network with Programmability and Automation
Join the free webinar on July 14th to learn how to bring the culture, tools, technical methods, and best practices from DevOps to Industrial Networks
July 8, 2020
pyATS Demos: Test Cases – NetDevOps Series, Part 16
pyATS Demos: Test Cases – NetDevOps Series, Part 16
Test Cases are all about a framework that allows you to build repeatable and more sophisticated testing processes. See how to work with test cases in pyATS and Genie.
May 5, 2020
pyATS Demos: Network Profiling – NetDevOps Series, Part 15
pyATS Demos: Network Profiling – NetDevOps Series, Part 15
Wouldn't it be great to have a tool that helps you profile the network end-to-end and store that info as snapshots? Genie can help you do it with a simple command!
April 21, 2020
pyATS Demo Interactive Tests – NetDevOps Series, part 14
pyATS Demo Interactive Tests – NetDevOps Series, part 14
Automating your network testing has never been easier! See how pyATS and the Genie interactive shell makes it easy to develop and debug your tests, step-by-step, in an interactive "pythonic" way!
April 7, 2020
pyATS Demos: Getting Started – NetDevOps Series, Part 13
pyATS Demos: Getting Started – NetDevOps Series, Part 13
Learn how to use pyATS to execute a single command on a certain network device. What if you could do the same for a large list of devices?
March 24, 2020
pyATS Demos Introduction and Setup – NetDevOps Series, Part 12 
pyATS Demos Introduction and Setup – NetDevOps Series, Part 12 
Used internally at Cisco to test new software, and now available free to Cisco customers and partners for their own testing and verification.
March 11, 2020
CLEUR Preview! Source of Truth Driven Network Automation
CLEUR Preview! Source of Truth Driven Network Automation
Learn what a Source of Truth is, and see how DevNet Sandbox uses Netbox to drive network automation!
Jan. 20, 2020