It’s now more apparent than ever that security is a critical aspect of IT infrastructure, and that devastating data breaches can occur from simple network line hacks. As shown in this book, combining ...

In the network automation era, Python is the de facto language to automate repetitive network tasks on a global scale. Network engineers can use a plethora of tools during their automation journey, ...

Traffic may not be everyone's favorite conversation topic, but IT teams must discuss and analyze traffic that passes through their organization's network to protect those networks against breaches and ...

How a Python and Netmiko utility turned repetitive health checks across 200 network devices into a parallel, logged, ...

Just before I left for Cisco Live US, I was given the chance to work with the APIs on Cisco DNA Center. Having never used Cisco DNA Center this was a quick learning curve, but once I started I could ...

As a junior network engineer at a university I wrote a lot of management scripts in Perl. I had scripts to do things such as check switchport configurations and upgrade switch code. Times have changed ...