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Sending REST APIs in Playbooks

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:

https://www.routehub.net/course/ansible/

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Firewall Automation with Palo Alto Network Firewalls

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.

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

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Revolutionize your networking game with NetDevOps methodology - where the power of automation meets the agility of networking!

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Access Control Lists added to ‘Cisco SD-WAN Viptela Course’

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.

https://www.routehub.net/course/cisco_sdwan/

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Running Python Scripts in Ansible Playbooks

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:

https://www.routehub.net/course/ansible/

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Network Design Cookbook: 2nd Edition - v2.4.1

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'

https://www.routehub.net/course/design2/

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Getting Firewall Logs using REST API

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.

https://www.routehub.net/course/pan_auto/

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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

And you can connect with me (and view my complete background experience) at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccie6778/