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
A quick example of using TextFSM to parse data from Cisco show commands – Python3 Version
As part of my ongoing effort to migrate everything over to Python 3, it’s time to show this “quick example” in Python 3. TextFSM is a powerful parsing tool (python module) developed by Google. There are some great examples out there to get you started. Here are two I urge you to read if this READ MORE
Python 2 or Python 3? Asked and Answered.
I’ve spent the last 6 months converting my Python 2.7 scripts over to Python 3. In the nascent days of SDN and Automation that was always one of the first questions asked… To code in Python 2 or Python 3? That question has been answered. If you look at the Python Developers Guide you can READ MORE
A quick example of using TextFSM to parse data from Cisco show commands
This is the original post which used Python 2.7. Please see the updated post using Python 3. TextFSM is a powerful parsing tool (python module) developed by Google. There are some great examples out there to get you started. Here are two I urge you to read if this topic is of interest to you: READ MORE