network automation

Overview In this, the last episode of our ongoing Catalyst Center Automation Series, our focus is on advanced automation methods which allow us to solve various use cases within a network from Catalyst Center. During this lab, we will discuss how to modify various velocity templates to deal with specific use cases so that Catalyst Center provisioning can enable those use cases via automation. This enables you, the network administrator, the ability to solve more types…

Overview In this episode of our ongoing Catalyst Center Automation Series, our focus is on enabling telemetry to make full use of the Assurance capabilities within Catalyst Center. During this lab, we will discuss how to enable various feeds to Catalyst Center so as to ensure all aspects are enabled within the Assurance application. This enables you, the network administrator, the ability to use the Assurance application within Catalyst Center to fault find the network remediating client…

Overview In this episode of our ongoing Catalyst Center Automation Series, our focus is on the automation provided by Catalyst Center in the areas of Application Visibility and Policy deployment. During this lab, we will discuss Application Visibility and deploy Controller-Based Application Recognition (CBAR). Additionally, you will define an Application Policy (QoS) using Differential Services methodologies and deploy that to the network. CBAR allows Catalyst Center to learn about applications used on the network infrastructure dynamically and helps…

Overview In this episode of our ongoing Catalyst Center Automation Series, our focus is on DayN Automation utilizing Templates for operations and setting up a lab or production environment to enable this capability. The third and fourth labs in the series aim to understand the various concepts required to support device configuration after onboarding. The labs within this series allow for use in the DCLOUD environment; however, you may equally utilize them as part of…