Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU) v1.0

Course Duration

2 days

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have the following knowledge and skills:

  • Routing and switching including Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and basic configuration features such as interfaces, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and static routes
  • Fundamentals of Python data structures and programming constructs such as loops, conditionals, and classes, or the equivalent of 3–6 months of experience writing Python scripts
  • Basic Linux commands for navigating the file system and executing scripts
  • Knowledge of working with text editors

Course Content

The Introducing Automation for Cisco Solutions (CSAU) v1.0 course gives you a broad overview of network automation skills. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs, you will learn the fundamentals of automation such as working on model-driven programmability solutions with Representational State Transfer Configuration Protocol (RESTCONF) and Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) protocols. The course also covers data formats and types, including Extensible Markup Language (XML), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Yaml Ain’t Markup Language (YAML), and Yet Another Next Generation (YANG), and their value in network automation, along with DevOps tools such as Ansible and Git.

This course is a requirement prior to enrolling in professional-level automation courses and exams because it provides crucial foundational knowledge essential to success:

Automation courses Automation exams
Implementing Automation for Cisco Enterprise Solutions (ENAUI) 300-435 Automating and Programming Cisco Enterprise Solutions (ENAUTO)
Implementing Automation for Cisco Data Center Solutions (DCAUI) 300-635 Automating and Programming Cisco Data Center Solutions (DCAUTO)
Implementing Automation for Cisco Security Solutions (SAUI) 300-735 Automating and programming Cisco Security Solutions (SAUTO)
Implementing Automation for Cisco Service Provider Solutions (SPAUI) 300-535 Automating and programming Cisco Service Provider Solutions (SPAUTO)
Implementing Automation for Cisco Collaboration Solutions (CLAUI) 300-835 Automating and Programming Cisco Collaboration Solutions (CLAUTO)

Course Outline

  • Examining Network Management and Operations
  • Exploring Software Development Methodologies
  • Using Python for Network Automation
  • Describing NetDevOps: DevOps for Networking
  • Managing Automation Development Environments
  • Introducing HTTP Network APIs
  • Reviewing Data Formats and Data Encoding
  • Using Python Requests to Automate HTTP-Based APIs
  • Exploring YANG
  • Using YANG Tools
  • Automating Model-Driven APIs with Python
  • Introducing Ansible for Network Automation
  • Templating Configurations with Jinja2

Who should enroll

This course is designed primarily for customer engineers and systems engineers in the following job roles:

  • Automation architect
  • Automation engineer
  • Consulting systems engineer
  • DevOps engineer
  • Network administrator
  • Network architect
  • Network consulting engineer
  • Network design engineer
  • Network engineer
  • Network operator
  • Network reliability engineer
  • Sales engineer
  • Site reliability engineer
  • Systems engineer
  • Technical solutions architect

This course would also be useful for network manager job roles such as:

  • Application developer
  • Collaboration developer
  • Collaboration solutions architect
  • IT director
  • Mobile developer
  • Network Operations Center (NOC) manager
  • Software architect
  • Web developer
Network automation