Cisco IOS XE Automation from Cisco Live AMEA 2024

Check out all the events and sessions from the recent Cisco Live 2024 in Las Vegas. Hopefully we’ll catch you at the next Cisco Live event coming up November 11-14, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia! Learn more and register for Cisco Live Melbourne.

These sessions cover topics ranging from getting started with Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation, tooling with YANG Suite and Terraform, and gaining hands-on experience with open-source solutions for Model Driven Telemetry. See the details of the upcoming Cisco Live sessions below:

Breakout Sessions

3 Cisco Catalyst Center and ITSM Workflows: CMDB, Incident Management, and SWIM – BRKOPS-2032

Do you have Cisco Catalyst Center in production or maybe in your lab, and you’re looking to increase efficiencies, simplify and automate tasks, or integrate with other platforms? Then this session is for you. Participants will learn about the most common, ready-to-use workflows, available with the Cisco Catalyst Center integration to ServiceNow. The session provides an overview of the Cisco Catalyst Center integration with ServiceNow, the integration architecture, software required, and compatible versions. We will review in detail all steps required to configure the configuration management database (CMDB) synchronization, network issue monitor, and enrichment and automation events (software image management) workflows. This integration will increase IT efficiencies, reduce the cost of creating and updating incidents, and decrease the time between when the network issue is detected and the network engineer starts troubleshooting. The automation events for the ITSM workflow creates change requests for network configuration changes that may impact the uptime or segmentation policies, avoiding costly unapproved configuration changes. Demos for each use case are included.

ChatBot for Catalyst Center – an Open-Source GenAI based Bot – DEVNET-3000

Do you have Cisco Catalyst Center in production or, maybe in your lab, and you are looking to increase efficiencies and visibility using Cisco Catalyst Center REST APIs? This session is for you! Participants will learn how to develop a Cisco Catalyst Center open-source AI based ChatBot. We will step-by-step build the ChatBot, reviewing the options to use real-time or near-real time data retrieved with API calls to Catalyst Center. The ChatBot allows network engineers to easily find relevant information using natural language, filtering only what is important. The open-source ChatBot will transform how we manage network infrastructure, enriching and simplifying network management tasks. Demos and Python sample code are included.

Cisco Catalyst Center Platform: APIs, Event Notifications, Integrations, and DevOps Resources – DEVNET-1087

Do you have Cisco Catalyst Center in production, in the lab, or are you just interested in getting started? This session will focus on how to manage your network infrastructure-as-code using the Catalyst Center platform. We will review the Catalyst Center REST APIs, real-time event notifications, out-of-the-box and open-source integrations, and how to build a custom integration. We will also go over the developer resources available to accelerate the consumption of Catalyst Center REST APIs. The session is use case–based, exploring the options to build innovative new solutions, services, and integrations on top of the Catalyst Center platform. Demos and Python and JavaScript sample code are included, as needed.

gRPC, gNMI, gNOI… Oh My! An Enterprise Network Automation Journey – BRKDEV-2017

How many Google API micro services are there on Cisco IOS XE, and what are their capabilities? At the end of this session not only will you be able to answer this question with confidence but you will also have a deep understanding of the solutions and real world use cases that are enabled as part of the Google Network Management API. But what about Model Driven Telemetry? What are the best practices for mutual TLS authentication and collection of large amounts of telemetry data ? This session covers the complete Programmability & Automation lifecycle of the Cisco Catalyst 9000 when managed using gRPC, gNMI and gNOI… oh my!

Let’s Talk about Catalyst Center Integrations – IBOOPS-2882

This session reviews existing ready-to-use Catalyst Center integrations, open-source integrations, and how to build custom integrations. Attendees will be able to drive the conversation toward the integrations of their choice.

We could start with the ready-to-use integrations between Cisco Catalyst Center and ITSM (ServiceNow), PagerDuty, Webex notifications, and Splunk. Details, best practices, and demos could be shared for each of these integrations.

If there is interest, we may evaluate the published, open-source integrations between Catalyst Center and Jenkins, GitHub and GitLab, as well as the architectural options for integrating with third-party platforms and how to build these integrations.

The concepts presented in this session are valuable when building integrations for real-time event notifications, asset management, network insights and dashboards, or API-based automations.

Demos and sample code are included.

Network Troubleshooting Using Cisco Catalyst Center APIs – BRKOPS-2548

Are you looking for API-based options to enhance and automate your network troubleshooting workflows?

Do you want to improve consistency, enhance visibility and compliance, while saving time troubleshooting your network? Then, this session is for you.

During the session, we will review the options available to automate common, repetitive tasks network engineers undertake while troubleshooting network issues.

Step by step, we will build a runbook environment that will be triggered when Cisco Catalyst Center identifies a new network issue. The open-source solution will call upon Cisco Catalyst Center APIs to collect all relevant information about the issue and the devices impacted, then update the network engineer. This information is very valuable, assisting the network engineer in troubleshooting the network problem based on the state of the network at the time the issue occurred. A simple troubleshooting knowledge base library will be included.

Demos and open-source sample code will be included.

Programmability, Automation Model Driven Telemetry on Cisco IOS XE with a dash of YANG Suite  – DEVNET-1283

This programmability and automation session on Cisco IOS XE and Catalyst includes an overview of the YANG based API’s and the associated YANG Suite tooling will be used extensively. The Model Driven Telemetry capabilities will also be discussed and the example Docker container for collection and visualization will be demonstrated. As well as ways to create new telemetry subscriptions using the Telegraf, Influx and Grafana stack and YANG Suite.

Stay Connected

No matter where you are on your programmability and automation journey there is always new and exciting content to help you dive even deeper while learning about new technologies and capabilities for the enterprise network.
Here are links where you can check out Cisco IOS XE programmability sessions from previous Cisco Live Events:

2024 – Amsterdam

 2023 – Melbourne

 2023 – Las Vegas

 2023 – Amsterdam

2022 – Melbourne

2022 – Las Vegas

2021 – Digital

2020 – Digital

2020 – Barcelona

2019 – San Diego

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