Highlights Network engineers are increasingly adopting Python libraries to automate device management, configuration, and monitoring.Tools like Nornir, Netmiko, ...

Ryan Tischer, a technical services architect at Cisco Systems, is the author of Programming and Automating Cisco Networks. Networks consist of distributed nodes — routers, switches and the like — that ...

Certification programs like those offered by Cisco and Juniper Networks can help network engineers document their proficiency in network automation. Modern networks require more dynamic changes than ...

In our examination of the Python language so far we’ve looked at the basics, some of the advanced stuff and a few architectural elements. This week we’ll look at Python in practice. Back in the first ...

Networks consist of distributed nodes — routers, switches and the like — that systems administrators and network engineers have, for the most part, managed individually via command line interfaces.