DAPASB10 - DNA Automation using Python for Cisco APIC-EM & Cisco Spark using Node Red from IBM Bluemix v1.0

Overview

Duration: 2 days

With new technologies and applications are greatly increasing nowadays in the field of Networking, python is one of the popular programming languages that is being widely used by many developers to build applications. In this training, the participants will have an opportunity to jump-start their programming skills by starting to understand the basic constructs of a program and slowly evolve themselves to build a script to automate a routine task in the enterprise.

This course demonstrates on how to create and execute a python script to make REST API call to APIC-EM and Cisco Spark to retrieve device info and device status to notify the respective engineers by creating a room in Cisco Spark and send notification. Similarly, from the authorized Spark Room, query can be initiated to retrieve the information of the device status from APIC-EM using Node Red services from IBM Bluemix Cloud Platform

Objectives

After attending this course you should be able to:

Introduction to SDN
Understanding the architecture of SDN
Quick overview on available SDN controllers
Introduction to Cisco APIC-EM – Enterprise class controller
Overview – various applications in APIC-EM
Understand web service and REST web service
Purpose of REST APIs
Overview on the available APIs in APIC-EM
How to consume REST API
Output data format - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
Basics of Python
Understanding to execute sample scripts in python
Retrieving the network device and interface status from Cisco APIC-EM.
Creating Room in Cisco Spark and sending notification to respective personnel
Querying about device information, status, etc from Spark Room to APIC-EM using Node Red services in IBM Bluemix Cloud Platform.

Audience

Pre-Sales Engineers, System Engineers, CTOs, IT Managers.

Content

Introduction to SDN

Network Analogies
Overview SDN controllers

APIC-EM – Overview

Architecture
Network Automation
Platform packing
APPs
Programmability

Web Service and Rest Web Service

Types of Web Services – REST and SOAP.

REST API

Introduction to REST
Architecture
Request and response model.
Consumption of a RESTful API.
Types of response data available - JSON/XML format

Making HTTP Request

Understanding of CRUD
Methods - GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

Python Programming Language

Overview of Python
Understanding Environment

Python Scripting for APIs

Fundamentals Python Script in APIC-EM & Spark
Use case Python Scripts in APIC-EM & Spark
Executing the script to see the functionality
Verifying Output

IBM Bluemix – an overview

Creating IBM Bluemix Trial Account
Services and functions

Node Red from Bluemix

Deploying Node Red service
Creating Node Red Flow editor
Retrieving information from Spark
Getting device information

Prerequisites

CCNA or relevant Networking knowledge is mandatory. Working knowledge or relevant conceptual knowledge in Automation, programming, IT Infrastructure Maintenance and cloud platform will be an added advantage.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENT
All the participants should have an IBM Bluemix account. If not, should create an account at the time of the training. IBM offers trial account for Bluemix and that comes with no limitations and 30 days validity (No credit card required).

Certification

This course does not lead to any certification

Schedule

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