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The Dallas / Fort Worth Cisco Users Group
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The Dallas / Fort Worth Cisco Users Group is an independent users group which meets on the first Wednesday of each month for the open exchange of technical information regarding the networking
industry and Cisco products for the benefit of Cisco users.
Our meetings are free to attend - all we ask is that you sign up via our membership / meeting announcements mailing list.
We also have a pizza buffet starting at 6:00 pm (no charge) with the main meeting starting at 6:30 pm.
Our Next Meeting - Wednesday
September 5, 2018
Getting started with Network Automation
using Python
Continuing the topic of Network
Automation/NetDevOps, let's look a bit more
on the practical side of using all this "new
technology". Now that you've got Python
up-n-running (thanks Beau
Williamson-March2018), have some ideas of
how to access devices to gather info and/or
push config parameters using Netmiko (thanks
Kirk Byers-April2018), and have some
practical Python programming skills (thanks
Matt Denapoli-August2018), let's delve
deeper in the real-world details of pull and
push aspects of Network Automation. We'll
work with a mix of vendor gear, a mix of
network operating systems that do and don't
support REST API's, and some of the
differences of what you can do with or
without API's. There will be examples of
running scripts from Windows/PyCharm/Python
and Linux/Python.
This is a mini hand-on lab session so bring
your laptop loaded with your Python tools
and WLAN connect to an isolated lab system
(no Internet access, totally isolated for
this hands-on lab system). Not only will you
write your own scripts (follow Jeff), you
will also have the opportunity to access
real equipment to validate your newly
created scripts do work!
If you don't have a laptop with Python
already installed, goto the DFW_CUG YouTube
channel and watch Beau Williamson's
presentation on March 7, 2018, to get you
up-n-ready.
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Jeff Carrell,
Network Instructor - HPE Education
Services
Jeff Carrell is a Network Instructor
for HPE Education Services. Jeff
facilitates many networking courses
offered by HPE, serves as a SME for
customized courses for specific
customer requirements, and
participates in course development.
Jeff is a frequent industry speaker,
freelance writer, IPv6 Forum
Certified Trainer, and prior to HPE
was a network instructor and course
developer to major networking
manufacturers. He is a technical
lead and co-author for the book,
Guide to TCP/IP: IPv6 and IPv4, 5th
Edition and lead technical editor on
Fundamentals of Communications and
Networking, Second Edition. |
Jeff Carrell |
Sponsor for September 5, 2018
DFWCUG
welcomes
GHD Consulting as our monthly meeting
sponsor for September 2018
Our Last
Meeting - Wednesday August 1, 2018
Python Language Fundamentals Workshop
Network Programmability is changing the
way the network is managed and monitored. To
take advantage of the benefits of this
industry shift, network engineers need to
“level-up” and learn the basics of software
development; in particular the Python
Programming Language. Don’t know Python?
We’ve got you covered.
This workshop will cover all the essentials
of the Python Language that you need to get
started. This includes the Python
Interpreter, Python Language Syntax,
Collections, Loops and Script Structure and
Execution. It will also work through using
Libraries to perform common tasks (such as
parsing JSON and other data formats) and
will even provide an Introduction to Git.
With all of this under your belt, you’ll be
coding in Python in no time. Finally, you’ll
also learn concepts and terminology for REST
APIs, how to get started with REST APIs, how
to use POSTMAN to test APIs, and how to
create scripts that can access a REST API.
Attendees will need to bring their Laptops
with the Python Interpreter and PyCharm
already loaded and ready to use. Loading
those tools was covered in the March DFWCUG
“Getting Started with Python (For Network
Engineers)” presentation by Beau Williamson.
Please refer to that presentation for
instructions for downloading and installing
the Python Interpreter, PyCharm. We will
also send out these instructions as well as
any programming examples to be used by the
presenter in the next DFWCUG Newsletter.
Matt Denapoli, Developer Evangelist at Cisco DevNet
Matt DeNapoli started his Cisco
career in 2007 as a wireless support
engineer. Over the course of the
next 6 years, Matt worked in many
capacities for the Cisco Developer
Network, the precursor to today’s
DevNet program. In 2013 he helped
with the implementation of that
program, acting as systems analyst,
a metrics guru, a coder, a teacher,
a systems engineer, and a developer
evangelist…sometimes all at the same
time! He’s proud to represent the
DevNet program and utilize the
DevNet Zone to inspire future
developers.
The DFWCUG wishes to thank
MpowerMe for being our meeting sponsor
for August 2018
DFWCUG welcomes
MpowerMe as our monthly meeting
sponsor for August 2018
MpowerMe provides innovative IT
staffing solutions with a focus on network
infrastructure across many industry
verticals.
MpowerMe has a recruiting approach
different than most traditional staffing and
recruiting firms: Simply put, we understand
technology and we understand people. That
combination gives us the ability to deliver
top talent at the right time. We believe
that in order to truly understand if a
candidate and a company are a good match,
you need to understand what the position
entails. Just like as an engineer needs to
understand the business requirements in
order to architect a working solution, a
recruiter needs to understand the business
and technical requirements of a position and
speak the same language with the candidate
in order to make the match.
MpowerMe knows the Cisco community
and can provide contract IT professionals,
contract-to-permanent and permanent
placements across the US.
https://www.mpowerme.com
Kristi Wade
Technology Talent Magnet
kwade AT mpowerme.com
(817) 239-3005
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