This course is intended for network engineering professionals who want to take their creative thought processes to the next level by writing code. Python allows you to build scripts to automate complex network configuration. It is the most widely used programming language for software-defined networking, and is a critical skill for today’s network engineers. Network Automation can be used for provisioning, configurations, identifying rogue devices, mitigating security attacks, compliance, audits, capacity planning and scores of other network deployment activities. It has helped in enhancing network visibility and has empowered the network engineers to make faster, smarter network decisions, optimize uptime and performance, enhance security, and enable innovation instead of spending endless cycles in managing the network. This course teaches the lessons of network programming with Python. Programming in python makes the theoretical building blocks that will lead to better scripts. Course covers to learn the fundamentals of the language, including objects and variables, strings, loop, and functions also discover how to use lists, tuples, and dictionaries, and integrate specialized Python libraries and modules such as Netmiko and telnetlib which concentrate on the topics of relevance to core skills to build basic functional scripts to configure routers and switches using GNS3, Cisco IOS, and Python, so that you can put your new skills to immediate use.

Using hands-on lab-based learning, this course takes you all the way from the basics of Python programming to the specific skills and tools needed to manage network devices using programming and reduces implementation time for software-based technologies in a enterprise network.

Skills covered in this course

• Python (Programming Language)
• IT Automation
• Network Administration
• Computer Networking

Target Audience:

• Network Engineers
• IT Consultants
• Network Consultants
• Cisco Certified certified professionals

Prerequisite:

• Knowledge in any programming language.
• Should have basic networking skills such as CCNA, CCNP or equivalent in order to use Python to configure Routers and Switches.

• Acquire a full complement of Python programming skills — basics, data structures, control structures, comparison operators, input and output, structured programming, object-oriented programming, etc.
• Describe use cases and examples of the value of network programmability
• Use Python to communicate to individual network devices, using examples of real networking communication and operations
• Use Python to communicate to multiple devices
• Use Object-Oriented Programming within Python to abstract network devices
• Use databases within a network-based application to store information about the network
• Use test methodologies to create quality applications
• Leverage software available via open source and existing libraries e.g. Cisco GitHub, Cisco DevNet, Python general-purpose and Cisco-specific libraries, NX-API