As an independent consultant one of the things I have to provide for myself are labs. It’s a wonderful time for labs! Virtual capabilities and offerings make testing and modeling a clients network easier than ever. Cisco DevNet offers “Always On” Sandbox devices that are always there if you need to test a “unit of READ MORE
Author: Claudia de Luna
The Struggle with Structure – Network Automation, Design, and Data Models
Preface Modern enterprise networking is going to require a level of structure and consistency that the majority of its networking community may find unfamiliar and perhaps uncomfortable. As a community, we’ve never had to present our designs and configuration data in any kind of globally consistent or even industry standard format. I’m fascinated by all READ MORE
Building a Production-ish Ready WebEx Teams ChatBot
Introduction Is your interrupt-driven day no longer supportable? Is there a particular Project Manager that asks you the same question every morning? Do you often have to take some technical data and simplify it for semi- or non-technical consumption? Would you like to pull out relevant sections of technical data for a sibling team? Today READ MORE
Decomposing Data Structures
Whether you are trying to find all the tenants in an ACI fabric, or all the interface IPs and descriptions on a network device, or trying to determine if the Earth is in imminent danger from an asteroid hurtling towards it, understanding complex data structures is a critical skill for anyone working with modern IT READ MORE
Building a Custom TextFSM Template
If you have seen any of the TextFSM posts on this site you know how useful the Network To Code TextFSM Template repository can be. Rarely do I not find what I need there! I recently had to parse route summary information from JUNOS Looking Glass routers. I always check the very rich set of READ MORE