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Introduction:
The Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU) v1.0 course gives you a broad overview of network automation skills. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs, you will learn the fundamentals of automation such as working on modeldriven programmability solutions with Representational State Transfer Configuration Protocol (RESTCONF) and Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) protocols. The course also covers data formats and types, including Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Yaml Ain’t Markup Language (YAML), and Yet Another Next Generation (YANG), and their value in network automation, along with DevOps tools such as Ansible and Git.
This course will help you:
- Gain an overview of the skills you need to become a next-generation engineer
- Prepare to accelerate network automation in your organization
- Increase collaboration across internal and external teams using version control systems
Audience profile:
- Automation architect
- Automation engineer
- Consulting systems engineer
- DevOps engineer
- Network administrator
- Network architect
- Network consulting engineer
- Network design engineer
- Network engineer
- Network operator
- Network reliability engineer
- Sales engineer
- Site reliability engineer
- Systems engineer
- Technical solutions architect
This course would also be useful for network manager job roles such as:
- Application developer
- Collaboration developer
- Collaboration solutions architect
- IT director
- Mobile developer
- Network Operations Center (NOC) manager
- Software architect
- Web developer
Pre-requisites:
Before taking this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:
- Routing and switching including Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and basic configuration features such as interfaces, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and static routes
- Fundamentals of Python data structures and programming constructs such as loops, conditionals, and classes, or the equivalent of 3–6 months of experience writing Python scripts
- Basic Linux commands for navigating the file system and executing scripts
- Knowledge of working with text editors
Course objectives:
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Articulate the role network automation and programmability play in the context of end-to-end network management and operations
- Define and differentiate between waterfall and agile software development methodologies
- Interpret and troubleshoot Python scripts with fundamental programming constructs built for network automation use cases
- Describe how DevOps principles, tools, and pipelines can be applied to network operations
- Understand the role of network automation development environments and associated technologies such as Python virtual environments, Vagrant, and Docker
- Understand and construct HTTP-based API calls to network devices
- Articulate the differences among and common use cases for XML, JSON, YAML, and protobuf
- Construct and interpret Python scripts using the Python requests module to automate devices that have HTTP-based APIs
- Understand the role YANG plays in network automation
- Understand that a number of tools exist to simplify working with YANG models
- Describe the functionality of RESTCONF and NETCONF and the differences between them
- Construct Ansible playbooks to configure network devices and retrieve operational state data from them
- Build Jinja2 templates and YAML data structures to generate desired state configurations
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Lab outline:
- Use Network Automation Scripts
- Enforce Python Fundamentals on the Interactive Interpreter
- Automate Networks with Netmiko
- Troubleshoot Python Scripts
- Use the Git Version-Control System and Collaborate on an Internal Project
- Manage Merge Conflicts
- Build Reproduceable Automation Environments
- Use HTTP-Based APIs with Postman
- Explore YAML and JSON Data
- Consume HTTP-Based APIs with Python Requests
- Explore YANG Tools
- Explore NETCONF with Python
- Explore RESTCONF with Python
- Configure Network Devices with Ansible
- Collect Network Data with Ansible
- Build and Deploy Configurations with Ansible
Associated certifications and exam:
This course does not lead directly to a certification exam, but it does cover foundational knowledge that can help you prepare for several professional-level automation courses and exams:
Automation Courses:
- Implementing Automation for Cisco Enterprise Solutions (ENAUTO)
- Implementing Automation for Cisco Data Center Solutions (DCAUTO)
- Implementing Automation for Cisco Security Solutions (SAUTO)
- Implementing Automation for Cisco Service Provider Solutions (SPAUTO)
- Implementing Automation for Cisco Collaboration Solutions (CLAUTO)
Automation Exams:
- 300-435 Automating and Programming Cisco Enterprise Solutions (ENAUTO)
- 300-635 Automating and Programming Cisco Data Center Solutions (DCAUTO)
- 300-735 Automating and programming Cisco Security Solutions (SAUTO)
- 300-535 Automating and programming Cisco Service Provider Solutions (SPAUTO)
- 300-835 Automating and Programming Cisco Collaboration Solutions (CLAUTO)
On successful completion of this course, students will receive a Torque IT attendance certificate.
Cisco Overview
Torque IT is one South Africa’s larger and more experienced providers of Authorized Cisco training. We run more courses more often, than any other training provider in South Africa and we guarantee that you will receive the most up to date and relevant technical course information available when you attend Cisco training courses at Torque IT.
Our standard and customized Cisco training courses are hands-on. When you attend training at Torque IT, you will implement the concepts that you learn using current Cisco equipment or Cisco Learning Labs (CLL), in real-world scenarios, to prepare you for real networking environments and the associated Cisco Certification examinations. Our authorized Cisco training and associated certification solutions empower you to design, sell, implement, troubleshoot and maintain Cisco implementations of any size.
The above serves to illustrate our commitment to providing you with high quality skills development, enablement, training and certification solutions that demonstrate exceptional depth, breadth, and expertise across Routing & Switching, Network Security, Cyber Security, Wireless LAN, Industrial (IoT), Unified Communications, Cloud, Data Center Unified Fabric, Unified Computing Systems, Service Provider, Network Programmability, Software Defined Networking and IP NGN technologies.