Check out all the events and sessions from the recent Cisco Live 2024 in Las Vegas. We hope to see you at the next Cisco Live event on 11-14 November 2024 in Melbourne, Australia! Learn more and register for Cisco Live Melbourne.
These seminars cover topics ranging from getting started with programming and automating Cisco IOS XE, tooling with the YANG Suite and Terraform, to getting hands-on experience with open source solutions for model-driven telemetry. Details on upcoming Cisco Live sessions can be found below:
Breakout Sessions
3 Cisco Catalyst Center and ITSM Workflows: CMDB, Incident Management and SWIM – BRKOPS-2032
Do you have a Cisco Catalyst Center in production or perhaps in your lab and are you looking to increase efficiency, simplify and automate tasks, or integrate with other platforms? Then this session is for you. Attendees will learn the most common, ready-to-use workflows available through Cisco Catalyst Center’s integration with ServiceNow. The session provides an overview of Cisco Catalyst Center integration with ServiceNow, integration architecture, required software, and compatible versions. We will discuss in detail all the steps required to configure configuration management database (CMDB) synchronization, network problem monitoring, and enrichment event workflows and automation (software image management). This integration will increase IT efficiency, reduce the cost of creating and updating incidents, and shorten the time between the detection of a network problem and the initiation of troubleshooting by a network engineer. Automation events for the ITSM workflow create change requests for network configuration changes that may affect availability or segmentation policies, preventing costly unapproved configuration changes. Examples are included for each use case.
ChatBot for Catalyst Center – a bot based on Open-Source GenAI – DEVNET-3000
Do you have Cisco Catalyst Center in production or perhaps in your lab and want to increase efficiency and visibility with the Cisco Catalyst Center REST API? This session is for you! Attendees will learn how to develop an open source AI-based Cisco Catalyst Center chatbot. We’ll build a ChatBot step by step and review the possibilities of using real-time or near-real-time data obtained through API calls to Catalyst Center. ChatBot enables network engineers to easily find relevant information using natural language and filter only what is important. The open-source ChatBot will change the way we manage network infrastructure, enriching and simplifying network management tasks. Samples and sample Python code are included.
Cisco Catalyst Center Platform: DevOps APIs, Event Notifications, Integrations, and Resources – DEVNET-1087
Do you have a Cisco Catalyst Center in production, in the lab, or just interested in getting started? This lesson will focus on how to manage network infrastructure as code using the Catalyst Center platform. We’ll cover the Catalyst Center REST API, real-time event notifications, built-in and open-source integrations, and how to build your own integration. We’ll also walk through the resources available for developers to speed up Catalyst Center REST API consumption. The seminar is based on a use case and explores the possibilities of creating innovative new solutions, services and integrations on the Catalyst Center platform. Python and JavaScript samples and sample code are included as needed.
gRPC, gNMI, gNOI… Oh my! Enterprise Network Automation Path – BRKDEV-2017
How many Google API microservices are there on Cisco IOS XE and what are their capabilities? By the end of this session, you will not only be able to confidently answer this question, but also have a deep understanding of the solutions and real-world use cases that are enabled as part of the Google Network Management API. But what about model-driven telemetry? What are the best practices for TLS mutual authentication and collecting large amounts of telemetry data? This lesson covers the complete Cisco Catalyst 9000 programmability and automation life cycle when managed using gRPC, gNMI and gNOI… oh yeah!
Let’s talk about Catalyst Center integrations – IBOOPS-2882
This session covers existing out-of-the-box Catalyst Center integrations, open source integrations, and how to build your own integrations. Participants will be able to guide the conversation towards the integrations of their choice.
We could start with ready-to-use integrations between Cisco Catalyst Center and ITSM (ServiceNow), PagerDuty, Webex notifications and Splunk. Details, best practices, and samples can be shared for each of these integrations.
If interested, we can evaluate published, open-source integrations between Catalyst Center and Jenkins, GitHub, and GitLab, as well as architectural options for integration with third-party platforms and how to build these integrations.
The concepts presented in this session are valuable when building integrations for real-time event notifications, asset management, network insights and dashboards, or API-based automation.
Samples and sample code are included.
Troubleshooting Network Issues Using the Cisco Catalyst Center API – BRKOPS-2548
Looking for API-based options to improve and automate your network troubleshooting workflows?
Want to improve consistency, improve visibility and compliance while saving time troubleshooting network issues? Then this session is for you.
During the session, we will discuss the options available to automate the common, repetitive tasks that network engineers perform when solving network problems.
Step by step, we’ll create a runbook environment that runs when the Cisco Catalyst Center identifies a new network problem. The open source solution calls the Cisco Catalyst Center API to gather all relevant information about the problem and affected devices and then updates the network engineer. This information is very valuable and helps the network engineer in troubleshooting the network based on the state of the network at the time the problem occurred. A simple knowledge base library for troubleshooting will be included.
Samples and open source sample code will be included.
Programmability, automation model driven telemetry on Cisco IOS XE with a bit of YANG Suite – DEVNET-1283
This programming and automation session on Cisco IOS XE and Catalyst includes an overview of YANG-based APIs and related YANG Suite tools that will be widely used. Model-driven telemetry options will also be discussed, and an example of a Docker container for collection and visualization will be shown. As well as ways to create new telemetry subscriptions using the Telegraf, Influx and Grafana stacks and the YANG Suite.
Stay connected
No matter where you are in your programming and automation journey, you’ll always find new and exciting content to help you dive even deeper while learning about new technologies and enterprise network capabilities.
Here are links to watch Cisco IOS XE Programmability sessions from previous Cisco Live Events:
2024 – Amsterdam
2023 – Melbourne
2023 – Las Vegas
2023 – Amsterdam
2022 – Melbourne
2022 – Las Vegas
2021 – Digital
2020 – digital
2020 – Barcelona
2019 – San Diego
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