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Hello Networkers,

We have released a new update to our existing ‘Network Automation using Ansible’ course we will show you how you can run python scripts inside of an Ansible playbook utilizing the shell module. Another type of task we can run is sending REST API requests inside of a playbook. For this example we will send a request to one of my Palo Alto Network firewalls to get some basic system information..

You can get more details here:

Hello Networkers,

We have added a new update to the ‘Cisco SD-WAN using Viptela’ course for configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs).  This will be configured as a local policy which is applied directly on the edge device.

Hello Networkers,

We have released a new update to our existing ‘Network Automation using Ansible’ course where we will show you how you can run Python scripts as a task inside of an Ansible playbook.  This will be a simple python script that will use the NETMIKO python library to access a network device and run a basic operational command and displaying that output when our playbook is run.

You can get more details here:

Hello Networkers,

We have added a new update to the ‘Cisco SD-WAN using Viptela’ course for other types of NAT that you can configure on the edge devices.  This includes using an IP pool of addresses to using a static NAT for translation.

Hello Networkers,

We have updated the Network Design Cookbook: 2nd Edition (v2.4.1) which includes the following updates / additions:

TL;DR: POD schema changes, Bandwidth Services, Stacking, Virtual Switching, Network Automation, SD-WAN

Updated POD schema to first include what type it is (FWK, SOL, SRV, ATT)

General corrections and clean-up of errors discovered

Updates to Hardware selections (e.g. LAN and DC Frameworks)

Added 'Network Automation' Solution

Added 'Stacking' POD to LAN Framework

Added 'Virtual Switching' POD to LAN Framework

Revamp Bandwidth Services section under Attributes

Revamp 'Services' section

Added 'Hardware Services' under Services

Added 'Network Services' under Services

Added Cisco SD-WAN using Viptela under SD-WAN Solution section

Updates to 'Wireless POD Configuration'

Hello Networkers,

We released a new training course where you will learn how to design and deploy a practical SD-WAN solution using Cisco Viptela products to provide centralized configuration management for a multi-site topology. 

You will learn how to setup a dual WAN topology with a Public Internet and Private WAN cloud to provide redundancy and ECMP. You will learn how to setup the Cisco SD-WAN controllers and onboard Edge devices into the topology.  And you will learn how to use Templates (Interfaces, Routing, NAT) to Policies (Preferred Routing, Application Aware Routing) among other topics.

In this course, you will learn how to design and deploy a practical SD-WAN solution using Cisco Viptela products to provide centralized configuration management for a multi-site topology. You will learn how to setup a dual WAN topology with a Public Internet and Private WAN cloud to provide redundancy and ECMP. You will learn how to setup the Cisco SD-WAN controllers and onboard Edge devices into the topology.  And you will learn how to use Templates (Interfaces, Routing, NAT) to Policies (Preferred Routing, Application Aware Routing) among other topics.

Hello Networkers,

We have added a new video update to our FortiGate 7.0 Course showing you how you can perform a software upgrade on the FortiGate appliance.

Hello Networkers,

We have added a new video topic to our ‘Firewall Automation using Palo Alto Networks” course to include how you can pull firewall logs from the PAN appliance using REST API requests.

In this video, I want to provide a preview for one of my custom network automation projected I have developed (and deployed) into a few customer environments.

This custom appliance utilizes a web frontend with a Python framework backend and a Mongo Database along with job FIFO queuing for all automation tasks.  Many of these jobs consisting of tasks, templates, reports to workflows.

You can get more details at: https://www.routehub.net/automation

Hello Networkers,

Automation has become a huge part in IT environments today to provide administration, monitoring, to automation of common tasks. We provide many different types of Automation Development for Networks, Firewall Administration, to Help Desk and System Support Teams.

For the Automation Development services that we provide, it will vary based on the environment, hardware, and customer requirements.  Whether it is creating python scripts, ansible playbooks, testing frameworks, training, to building CI/CD pipelines among other automation technologies.

You can get more details at: https://www.routehub.net/automation

You can watch a preview video that will show the type of network automation and NetDevOps projects we provide for companies, engineers, and consultants:

Hello Networkers, in this video, I want to provide an overview of our Automation Development services that we provide at RouteHub.net focused around Network Automation.

For the Automation Development services that we provide, it will vary based on the environment, hardware, and customer requirements.  Whether it is creating python scripts, ansible playbooks, testing frameworks, training, to building CI/CD pipelines among other automation technologies.

I will show you the list for some of the services and automation experience we can provide.

Hello Networkers,

We have released a new automation development course, where you will learn how to configure the Palo Alto Networks firewall appliance using REST APIs to provide network automation and programmability services to your network environment. You will learn about the structure and components of REST API requests.  You will learn how you can view, add, update, and delete a wide variety of firewall components to even performing a software upgrade. And you will learn how you can build REST API requests inside of a Python script to show what you can build further for your own tools to provide firewall automation.

In this course, you will learn how to configure the Palo Alto Networks firewall appliance using REST APIs to provide network automation and programmability services to your network environment. You will learn about the structure and components of REST API requests.  You will learn how you can view, add, update, and delete a wide variety of firewall components to even performing a software upgrade. And you will learn how you can build REST API requests inside of a Python script to show what you can build further for your own tools to provide firewall automation.

Hello Networkers,

We added a new update to our FortiGate 7.0 course for how you can enable SNMPv3 on the FortiGate appliance to provide the ability that we can monitor the status and performance of our Firewall appliance.   We will also show you how you can add the FortiGate appliance into a typical NMS solution using SNMPv3.

Hello Networkers,

We released a new update to the FortiGate 7.0 course where we will show you how to setup traffic shaping for outbound connections based on the network or application services. 

Traffic shaping is the capability where we can rate limit a user's session through the firewall to a particular bandwidth or throughput rate.  This can be based on a certain service, application, or all traffic.

Hello Networkers,

In the overview presentation video, I talked about the different ways how you can interact with Cisco NSO. There is CLI access and REST API access which I covered a lot in this series, which are also the most common methods for NSO administration.

The other methods include Python scripts and using the Web UI. In this video topic, I want to show you how you can access and navigate through the web UI.