Practical network automation leverage the power of Python and Ansible to optimize your network
What You Will Learn " Get the detailed analysis of Network automation " Trigger automations through available data factors " Improve data center robustness and security through specific access and data digging " Get an Access to APIs from Excel for dynamic reporting " Set up...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham, UK
Packt Publishing
2017
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Fundamental Concepts
- Network automation
- DevOps
- Software-defined networking
- OpenFlow
- Program concepts
- Variables
- Data types
- Decision makers
- Loops
- Arrays
- Functions
- Best practices
- Readability of a program
- Support information
- Indentation
- Sample best practice example
- Language choices (Python/PowerShell)
- Writing your first program
- PowerShell IDE
- Python IDE
- Representational State Transfer (REST) framework
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Python for Network Engineers
- Python interpreter and data types
- Conditions and loops
- Nested and multiple conditions
- Loops
- For next loop
- While loop
- Writing Python scripts
- Functions
- Passing arguments from the command line
- Python modules and packages
- Multithreading for parallel processing
- Using Netmiko for SSH and network device interaction
- Network automation use case
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Accessing and Mining Data from Network
- Chapter 6: Continuous Integration for Network Engineers
- Interaction with Splunk
- Automation examples on various technology domains
- BGP and routing table
- Configuring Cisco switchport for access point
- Configuring Cisco switchport for IP Phone
- Wireless LAN (WLAN)
- Access of IP Address Management (IPAM)
- Example and use case
- Create a web-based pre and post check tool for validations
- Step 1
- Create the main HTML file
- Step 2
- Create the backend Python code
- Step 3
- Create web server based files for the tool
- Step 4
- Create server based files for pre and post files comparison
- Summary
- Chapter 7: SDN Concepts in Network Automation
- Managing cloud platforms
- Programmable network devices
- Controller-based network fabric
- Network automation tools
- Summary
- Device configurations
- Multi-vendor environments
- IP configs/interface parsing
- Device OS upgrades
- IPv4 to IPv6 conversion
- Site rollouts
- Office/DC relocations
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) configs for switches
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Web Framework for Automation Triggers
- Why create web-based scripts/frameworks?
- Understanding and configuring IIS for web framework
- Understanding IIS
- Configuring IIS for Python script support
- Creating web-specific scripts
- Accessing a script from dynamic HTML
- Creating the backend API in C#
- Consuming the API in Python
- Sample summary task
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Ansible for Network Automation
- Ansible overview and terminology
- Basic requirements of Ansible. Installation of Ansible
- Introduction to ad hoc commands
- Ansible playbooks
- Working with Ansible facts
- Ansible conditions
- Ansible loops
- Python API with Ansible
- Creating network configuration templates
- Summary