Let’s do something unusual, because how often do you flood your network with dummy prefixes to see the impact on the environment? Stress testing your network can lead to interesting conclusions, but can also blow the network. So today we
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Cisco Meraki SDK Essentials: Obtaining Organizations Data
Since my last article, Meraki has changed significantly. It evolved so much that my previous scripts are not working. In 2022, Meraki implemented a Dashboard v1, which introduced some changes to the REST API calls. Unfortunately, the previous SDK –
Getting started with vManage client: essential features and functions
I’m happy to share another article published on the Codilime blog. This time I’ve looked deeper at the basic usage of vManage Client – a Python library dedicated to managing Cisco SD-WAN.
What to expect in pexpect? – Advanced examples
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
Pagination handling with pexpect
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,
Script runtime optimization with pexpect
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
Flow control with pexpect
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
Basic Cisco router automation workflow with pexpect
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
Cisco SD-WAN REST API calls with Python’s requests library
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,
Cisco SD-WAN REST API calls with Postman
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