| ARTICLES | Summary | Author |
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| Containers and Networks Visibility with ntopng and InfluxDB – ntop | Open source metrics using nProbe, nTop and influxdb | Greg Ferro |
| Device Management From The Ground Up: Part 1 – Accessing Your First Device | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Bob Wildauer |
| Device Management From The Ground Up: Part 2 – Device Modes | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Bob Wildauer |
| Device Management From The Ground Up: Part 3 – Storage And Filesystems | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Bob Wildauer |
| Device Management From The Ground Up: Part 4 – Viewing Operational State | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Bob Wildauer |
| Device Management From The Ground Up: Part 5 – External File Management | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Bob Wildauer |
| Device Management From The Ground Up: Part 6 – Working In ROMMON | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Bob Wildauer |
| Device Management From The Ground Up: Part 7 – Resetting Device Passwords | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Bob Wildauer |
| Device Management From The Ground Up: Part 8 – Configuration Archiving | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Bob Wildauer |
| Formatted CLI Data Is Not Good Enough For Automation | We all know of clever Excel pasting techniques and fancy text manipulation that can whip screen-scraped data into shape. I’ve gotten awfully good over the years with my Find/Replace to turn something ugly I copied from the screen into a CSV I could import into Excel. But this is not the way forward. We have better tools now. Structured data is where it’s at for those in a network automation mindset. | Ethan Banks |
| How To Reference Nested Python Lists & Dictionaries | When getting data back from API queries in Python, the data is often delivered as JSON. Python libraries such as requests will convert that JSON into a data structure you can work with: probably a dictionary, list, or a nested combination of the two. The trick is referencing the data element you need to work with. This is straightforward once you’re used to it, but befuddling if you’re not. We’ll walk through lists, dictionaries, and nested combinations using a series of examples. | Ethan Banks |
| Is Automation A Full-Time Career? | No, its just a small part of your job unless it is your job. | Greg Ferro |
| Itential Network Automation Briefing Deck – October 2019 | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Drew Conry-Murray |
| The Best Outcome Of Automation? Visibility | Automation isn’t just about configuration. | Greg Ferro |
| The Business Case For Automation Series Part 3: Case Study – Self-Provisioning A Development Environment | The post examines a real-world automation case study in which a team built out a self-service infrastructure to enable developers to provision their own development environments. The post details the problems with the existing solution and how the project iterated over time to include additional features and capabilities. | Tom Bragg |
| The Business Case For Automation Series Part 4: Case Study – Automating Infrastructure Configurations For Application Deployment | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Tom Bragg |
| The Business Case For Automation Series Part 5: Case Study – Aggregating Geographic Data Using Azure | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Tom Bragg |
| The Business Case For Automation Series Part 6: Case Study – Automating Account Creation And Self-Service Updates | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Tom Bragg |
| The Business Case For Automation Series Part 7: Case Study – Self Service For Peripherals | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Tom Bragg |
| The Business Case For Automation Series: Part 1 – Defining Automation | What makes a process automated instead of just scripted? Does the difference matter? Yes, significantly, and we’ll tell you why in this first article from a new series on automation. | Tom Bragg |
| The Business Case For Automation Series: Part 2 – Deriving Automation Value From Self Service | While automation has technology benefits, automation can also underpin self service, which has significant business benefits. This installment of the Business Value Of Automation series looks at how self service helps IT better support the business and boost its own value to the organization. | Tom Bragg |
| Your First REST API Call In Python | While many network engineers are familiar with polling device data using SNMP, retrieving similar data via an API might seem non-intuitive. In this tutorial, we demystify API calls. We’ll explain them simply, demonstrate how to make an API call using the requests library in Python, and walk through a JSON result. | Ethan Banks |
| WHITEPAPERS & EBOOKS | Summary | Author |
|---|---|---|
| An Introduction To Intent-Based Networking: Whitepaper | If you need to get up to speed on IBN (or bring others up to speed), this introductory whitepaper is a great place to start. | Phil Gervasi |
| Intent-Based Networking Part 2: A Deep Dive Into Network Abstraction And Continuous Validation – Whitepaper | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Phil Gervasi |
| Perspective: How ML And AI Work With Networking – Whitepaper | Vendors regularly overstate the capabilities of their products, particularly when it comes to AI and ML. This whitepaper aims to help you understand the state of AI and ML in networking so you can be better informed as you evaluate products and chart your networking strategy over the coming years. | Greg Ferro |
| VIDEOS | Summary | Author |
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| Analytics & ML Is Replacing Packet Capture | Packet capture has been the definite tool for network visibility for many years, but it’s time for evolution. Increasing use of encryption prevents payload visibility. Link speed increases in the LAN and WAN increases the amount of data to be collected, analyzed and stored. Enter flow export, statistical analysis and machine learning. Data collection at scale using flow exports (sFlow/IPFIX) provides data that can be analyzed at scale. Events in the data are recognized and fingerprinted. Patterns in encrypted flows combined with metadata such as domain name and IP address ranges are turned into actionable data. Packet capture . . . This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Greg Ferro |
| PODCASTS | Summary | Author |
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| COURSES | Summary | Author |
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| Ansible For Network Automation | This content is for Ignition members only. At this time, Packet Pushers Ignition is not accepting new members. Thank you for your interest! … | Josh VanDeraa |
