I have been over the automatic creation of the VXLAN topology in the previous post. However, this stopped at the creation of the topology only. If in the future I wanted to add a new spine or leaf switch, this could be done, but the other switches wouldn’t be aware as they would also need […]
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This is going to follow on from the previous post to get a basic three switch topology up and running with VXLAN. This time however, instead of doing more VXLAN I will concentrate on a way to automate the adding of spine and leaf switches to the fabric.The purpose of this automation piece is to
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This post is a follow-up to the post I created that gives a basic multi threaded example. There isn’t any context and when I came back to the code I found it difficult to translate into one of my functions. In this example, I will take a function of my F5 Flask Dashboard that has
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AEM is the event handler for Arista. It can be used to automate tasks giving the user the ability to customise alerts and actions. There are three parts to ARM; Event Manager, Event Monitor and Linux Tools. Send XMPP Message on Interface ChangeDownload script and execute if startup-config presentUsing variables in AEMRunning Script Before EOS
Zero Touch Provisioning is a way for Arista switches to get a configuration file via DHCP options and configure itself with no interaction from an admin. All there is to do is connect up the switch and IP/config will be applied to the switch.ZTP will only run when there is no startup-config file, so first
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As ISE is using an API, Python can be used to interact with the API. This allows the use of programmatic logic to create, read, update or delete ISE elements. Basic GET I have created a simple GET that will just print the dACLs that ISE has. This is exactly the same API request and
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I have used Jinja in all of my projects that use Flask. It’s a simple way to get Python syntax into a HTML page.Details about the project and full documentation can be found here. I will show how I have used Jinja in my Multicast Daskboard, part of my Scrapli and Flask Project. I have
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When I was creating the page in my Scrapli and Flask Project for Multicast details. I had a requirement to split a string on multiple delimiters. As always Stack Overflow came to aid me. The “show ip mroute” plain text output from the Nexus switch uses multiple delimiters for new lines, three specifically: “\n, \n\n,
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I have used parsing in other projects. I used Genie and TextFSM to parse Cisco output in order to get specific details.TextFSM in ProjectGenie in ProjectHere I want to take a closer look at creating a TextFSM template. As I could not easily find a TextFSM template for the Nexus command “show ip mroute” I
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RPA is a way of automating processes that do not have the use of an API. RPA can be used to automate repetitive tasks on; websites or desktop applications. I thought this would be a good way of adding IP addresses to my Scrapli & Flask Project without using an API (as I haven’t added
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