Specs
5 Day Course
Lecture and Lab
Overview
Managing networks can be repetitive and error-prone, but Python can make incredible changes to how you automate with all major (and most minor) network vendors. This course is driven by lessons and labs designed to utilize Python libraries designed to interact with and configure your network devices. At the conclusion of this course, you’ll be empowered with the tools and skills necessary to take your network to the next level. This class is a combination of live demonstrations and hands-on labs with virtual network devices and endpoints as targets for your configuration.
Objectives
Sending HTTP Requests to APIs with builtin and 3rd party libraries
Opening Telnet Sessions with builtin libraries
Automating SSH commands with Paramiko
Performing ICMP Pings
Transforming Data between JSON, YAML, and Python
Retrieve and Push network device configuration via Netmiko and Napalm
Use Pandas to manipulate data in a variety of formats (CSV, Excel, JSON)
Database manipulation
Capturing and Parsing Network Traffic
AI LLM prompt engineering for Python snippets and jumpstarting solutions