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Build your own source of truth

19/07/202320/09/2023 Radosław Kochman

When it comes to network automation we can’t forget about the real foundation – the single source of truth. What would we do without it? You can have the best automation scripts possible, but without a complete database of your

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Cisco, iOS, Pexpect, Python

What to expect in pexpect? – Advanced examples

12/07/202320/09/2023 Radosław Kochman

I remember how frustrated I was at the beginning of my journey with pexpect. I never knew what string to put as an expect argument, and even if I knew, the pexpect wasn’t catching it. Today we will go through

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Cisco, iOS, Pexpect, Python

Pagination handling with pexpect

06/06/202306/06/2023 Radosław Kochman

In this article, we will examine the apparently easy task which is a retrieval of the show version command from the Cisco router. What could go wrong there, and how to fix it? Let’s figure it out! Workflow overview Today,

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Cisco, iOS, Pexpect, Python

Script runtime optimization with pexpect

27/03/202322/09/2023 Radosław Kochman

Automation itself is a milestone when it comes to efficiency. Tasks can be executed simultaneously on many devices even during nights/holidays. Sometimes, however, it has its limits. As the task execution time grows more and more, it’s a good idea

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Cisco, iOS, Pexpect, Python

Flow control with pexpect

13/03/2023 Radosław Kochman

Using pexpect is pretty straightforward, but what about the situations, when we don’t know in what state the device, that we’re interacting with is? In such a scenario, we have to implement logic in our script that could handle different

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Basic Cisco router automation workflow with pexpect

10/03/202310/03/2023 Radosław Kochman

Network automation can take many forms depending on the technologies and environments. Sometimes though, we have to dive deep into low-level automation, where we can’t use REST API or other more-convenient technologies. In this article, we will take a brief

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Network automation

Network automation – why does it matter?

08/11/202208/11/2022 Radosław Kochman

I’m happy to announce the first effects of cooperation with Codilime! Together with Piotr Banaś, we wrote an article explaining our point of view, on why network automation matters.

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Cisco, Cisco SD-WAN, DEVASC 200-901, REST API, SDN

Cisco SD-WAN REST API calls with Python’s requests library

12/06/202212/06/2022 Radosław Kochman

In the previous article on Cisco SD-WAN, I’ve shown you how to interact with the vManage using Postman software. Now it’s time to do some coding. We will interact with the SD-WAN using the Python requests library. For this article,

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Cisco SD-WAN REST API calls with Postman

11/06/202211/06/2022 Radosław Kochman

This article starts a series covering the depths of Cisco SD-WAN. This time, however, we will just scratch the surface with some basic requests. For that, we will use the Postman software and Cisco SD-WAN 20.4 Always On sandbox Authentication

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Netmiko, News

Universal Network Backup Tool v 2.0 released

07/02/2022 Radosław Kochman

It’s been a while since the Universal Network Backup Tool was developed. This weekend a new version was released. There is one major bug fix and some enhancements. Changelog: Fixed bug crashing script because of ‘%’ present in the username/password

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