NetDevOps Live! Logging and Back Again - A Network Engineers Journey with ELK

Cisco UCS PowerTool Suite which includes PowerShell Modules for Cisco UCS, Cisco UCS Central, and Cisco IMC has been updated to support both Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core. This session covers the Cisco UCS PowerTool module installation, how to import Cisco UCS PowerTool modules, and how to utilize Cisco UCS PowerTool modules to deploy, upgrade, manage, and monitor your UCS Infrastructure. Attendees will come away knowing how to utilize the Cisco UCS PowerTool to create Cisco UCS PowerTool code. This Cisco UCS PowerTool feature is so simple you'll be automating your Cisco UCS infrastructure in no time!

At the beginning of the session, we will talk about the challenges that defenders are facing in the Cybersecurity world and how these challenges can be overcome by integration and automation. Then, we will introduce the audience to REST APIs, discuss why they became the de-facto standard in the industry, and go through the API classification for Cybersecurity. Lastly, we will provide an overview of SecureX threat response API capabilities and share the code examples for most popular use cases. We will also give an introduction on how to get started on the Cisco security certification. We will cover new Cisco DevNet associate, DevNet Security Automation Specialist, and Cyber Ops professional certification.

Have you heard of Cisco Edge Intelligence (EI)? Cisco launched its brand new IoT data orchestration software which connects assets at the edge to multi-cloud application destinations. Find more about how Edge Intelligence works in our upcoming webinar which includes a hands-on demo! Together with the EI Technical Marketing Engineer Naveen Manicka, we will show you how you can create your asset types, asset inventory, and data policies within just a few minutes and send data from the edge to your MQTT broker or preferred cloud hosting service. Furthermore, we will showcase creating data logic scripts for data transformation using the industry-standard IDE tool Visual Studio Code.

Meraki’s Dashboard API has proven for years to be a useful tool in network creation, management, and monitoring. It has provided thousands of organizations ROI in time and effort by allowing them to build network and applications for how they manage IT. The first version of the Meraki Dashboard API (v0 as it’s called) was bolted on to the platform as an additional feature rather than the driver of features and development. Working in conjunction with DevNet, Meraki adopted and “API First” mentality in the development of v1 and is now ready to unveil the resulting improvements. In this session, we will explore differences from v0 and v1 that will enhance the developer experience, promote consistency and adoption of REST standards, and identify avenues for increased efficiency in API implementation and usage.

In this BrightTalk webinar, you will hear how we planned and built the new Cisco SD-WAN Sandbox, what goes into building a sandbox, and an awesome demo from Sai showing you how to use Postman collection examples to get started with Cisco vManage APIs. Then we will look at how to use vManage Aggregation APIs to generate reports on statistics related to loss/latency/jitter of SD-WAN overlay tunnels and we will also look at how to use APIs to trigger policy updates to change the preferred transport for certain application traffic. Finally, we look at how to use Viptela Python SDK to simplify operations related to feature/device templates. We will also be taking your questions live too.

This webinar will be presented twice to accommodate global audiences. The session will be made available in both AMER/EMEAR and APJC time zones. Join us to learn about the NEW DevNet Specialization designed to provide a path to help you build or enhance your software development practice, with a focus on automation & application development on top of Cisco platforms.

Achieve this specialization by becoming a Cisco partner and get recognized for your expertise and ability to help customers unlock the value of software automation and transform their business. Register today.

This webinar will be presented twice to accommodate global audiences. The session will be made available in both AMER/EMEAR and APJC time zones. Join us to learn about the NEW DevNet Specialization designed to provide a path to help you build or enhance your software development practice, with a focus on automation & application development on top of Cisco platforms.

Achieve this specialization by becoming a Cisco partner and get recognized for your expertise and ability to help customers unlock the value of software automation and transform their business. Register today.

So, you are interested and curious to learn about the Internet of Things and wondering if it would be a good idea to give an IoT certification exam. DEVIOT certifications come to your mind but along with it comes a lot of what-ifs and how-to questions. Fear, not IoT enthusiast! We are here to share our experience and help you out with your journey to IoT starting with how to approach the DEVIOT exam and manage your time to learn the essentials of this certification.

Cisco’s industrial switch series IE3x00, the industrial router IR1101, and the industrial access point IW6300 and are running IOS XE (same as on the Catalyst 9000 Series) which enables Industrial NetDevOps. Industrial NetDevOps is the combination of the tools and best practices from DevOps with network engineering and operations in industrial networks. This means that instead of using SNMP and CLI, you configure and manage industrial network devices via network device APIs and other software automation tools.

The aim of the session is to get you started with Industrial NetDevOps: How you can use the network device APIs (RESTCONF & NETCONF), the automation tool Ansible and its differences to DNA Center and Industrial Network Director (IND). Also, it will cover use-cases where it would make sense to use these APIs. There will be also a live demo for showcasing!

What is LoRaWAN? How can you use it for your IoT deployment? This session will cover shortly the basics of this IoT technology and show how we implemented it with parking sensors in the Cisco office in Frankfurt, Germany. The testbed is straight forward: data is sent from the LoRa parking sensors from Bosch to the LoRa network server and from there to the backend (influx-db, python script with flusk, Grafana) to visualize it on a web-based dashboard.

Through this webinar you will learn the technologies you need to know to make working with IoT straight forward and easy. You will learn about the most commonly used protocols for communication in IoT, you will learn about which devices are good to get started with, and you will learn how to build IoT applications in the ever-evolving world of IoT. This session will have light coding and will have live examples of using IoT.

In this BrightTalk webinar, you will hear how we planned and built the new Cisco SD-WAN Sandbox, what goes into building a sandbox, and an awesome demo from Sai showing you how to use Postman collection examples to get started with Cisco vManage APIs. Then we will look at how to use vManage Aggregation APIs to generate reports on statistics related to loss/latency/jitter of SD-WAN overlay tunnels and we will also look at how to use APIs to trigger policy updates to change the preferred transport for certain application traffic. Finally, we look at how to use Viptela Python SDK to simplify operations related to feature/device templates. We will also be taking your questions live too.

The difference between a good code project and a great code project is often the quality of the peripheral components. Topics like documentation, regression testing, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and runtime error checking tend to be forgotten once the program functions correctly. I've discussed my "narc" tool in the past which uses Nornir and Netmiko to test the efficacy of Cisco ASA firewall rulesets. That session "Is Your ASA Really Doing What You Expect" focused on the functional Python code to accomplish the program's purpose. This session will focus on everything we skipped last time, including design tips on how to test your own code projects.

Sure, you've figured out how to up your game in network configuration, but what are you doing to modernize your network monitoring and logging? I bet you're still stuck in the stone age, stockpiling syslog like a dragon hordes gold, hoping you never need to look through it to find that particular gem of good information. Join Hank on his quest through the Mines of Local7 guided by the Wise Wizard of ELK, George Kobar!

Who would have thought IP Address Management would be one of the hottest topics in network automation? If anyone did, it was Jeremy Stretch. You'll have to pardon Hank if he's a bit star struck on this one, because not only is Jeremy leading the team behind NetBox, he's also the creator of the networking cheat sheets that have helped many of us learn networking fundamentals. Whether you've been using NetBox for years, or never heard of it before, you'll want to join this episode to learn why Source of Truth MUST be a key to your network automation strategy.