Automation

SHOW ME THE CODE Source Code Why Go Out, We Have TAC at Home Ever found yourself wishing you had a Cisco TAC engineer on speed dial? While nothing beats the real Technical Assistance Center when you’re deep in production issues, I’ve been playing with a fun little project that brings some of that TAC magic right to your terminal. Big disclaimer: this is not a real TAC tool, it’s a proof of concept. With that said, don’t go take this out of the lab and use it in production as it’s not ready for that. ...

Using BGP for Network Device Configuration Distribution: A Proof of Concept In the world of network automation and configuration management, we’re constantly seeking elegant solutions for distributing configuration changes across our infrastructure. While there are many established tools and protocols for this purpose, I recently explored an unconventional approach: using BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) as a transport mechanism for device configurations. In this post, I’ll share my proof of concept that demonstrates how BGP can be repurposed for configuration distribution. ...