Network Automation with Python (synchronous E-Learning)

The course is suitable for network engineers with no or little experience in Python programming language. However, they should be able to use text editor to write simple program/script in any programming language.

The course aims to deliver the following course objectives:

• Equip network engineers with the most relevant Python programming skills.
• Equip participants with Python programming skills to create scripts to perform network tasks using command-line interface (CLI).

What You'll Learn

Part 1

• Software installation on Microsoft Windows platform
• Python syntax, naming convention for variables, functions and modules
• Basic data types and various functions involving type conversion
• Standard input and output
• Flow Control and loop
• Collections: lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries and various functions involving collections
• Classes and objects
• Modules and libraries
• Threading and multiprocessing
• Logging

Part 2

Using relevant Python programming skills and open source libraries to perform the following tasks:

• Access inventory information from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets or CSV files or SQLite database
• Create configuration files for network devices from template files and inventory information using template engine
• Execute CLI commands to network devices
• Parse CLI outputs into structured data using regular expression and finite state machine
• Store parsed structured data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets or CSV files or SQLite
• Trainees will develop several scripts to demonstrate their learnings