Network automation

The Monitoring Experts

Daren Fulwell of IP Fabric joins Simon Bell and Shaun Behrens of Paessler to talk about network automation. They cover what the perception of network automation is for IT administrators, their own perception of it, and how to approach it.
Some tips that came out of the discussion for dealing with network automation:

• Start with individual tasks
• Focus on the solution and not the technology
• Understand the data flows that you are automating
• Automated tasks can be reused in multiple data flows

Simon and Daren also discuss an example of automation involving an asset management tool (IP Fabric) and a monitoring tool (Paessler PRTG). Here is a link to the video of the use case:
Network automation – what does it actually mean?
You can find more details in this blog post by Daren:
Making sure your network is behaving as you intend

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• Shaun Behrens

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Kapitler

1. Introducing Daren and Simon (00:00:00)

2. How do admins perceive network automation? (00:02:51)

3. Focus on the solution and not the technology (00:05:12)

4. The role of programming in network automation (00:07:49)

5. Automation example: notifications when devices are added to a network (00:10:37)

6. Understanding the data flow (00:13:43)

7. Getting started with individual steps and reusing steps (00:15:58)

8. Summary and wrap-up (00:17:40)