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Integrating Sandbox labs with Cisco Black Belt Academy Learning Maps

mukuthak — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 06:33:12 GMT

Hello Team,

Could we connect to discuss further the possibilities of integrating our Sandbox labs onto the learning materials we have on Cisco's Black Belt Academy portal.

Link - SalesConnect (cisco.com)

Hope to hear back soon.

DevNet Beginner Learning Lab Track Errata

BenFranske — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 03:12:55 GMT

We have discovered at least two issues so far with the DevNet Beginner learning track at: https://developer.cisco.com/learning/tracks/devnet-beginner

In the Network Programmability module the lab titled "Cisco DNA Center APIs with Python: Part 1 - The Basics" doesn't actually exist. This link really takes you to a lab titled "Cisco DNA Center API Overview". I'm not sure which is supposed to be the correct lab but either the link is titled incorrectly or is pointing to the wrong lab.
On page 2 of the "Cisco DNA Center Platform - Authentication" lab (and continuing on through the next several labs you are asked to do some work in Python requests making calls on DNAC with thinks like
```
requests.post(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(DNAC_USER, DNAC_PASSWORD))
```
however, these will all fail because the SSL certificate on the DNAC server is self-signed. All of these calls need to be changed to something more like
```
requests.post(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(DNAC_USER, DNAC_PASSWORD), verify=False)
```
which will ignore certificate errors. Ideally the need for this would also be explained to the learner so they understand that ignoring certificate errors in production is a bad idea.

Thanks!

-Ben

DNAC HW Lab's ISE is not reachable

denis.grinceac — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 21:42:28 GMT

I was able to wait for the DNA Center Lab 1. It sims the ISE server listed in the lab is not reachable. ISE is fundamental part of the DNA architecture so it would be good if you guys can take a look on that. Thanks.

CML Lab Saves in DevNet Sandbox

HenryGee — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:13:37 GMT

I think it would be a good idea to be able to save your CML labs in DevNet Sandbox for a small monthly fee. I think multiple people would benefit from this and it would be a good business idea. I would love to be able to do this. Thanks

Virl sandbox dns server configuration

VikasA — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 04:59:20 GMT

Hi Team,

I see that when I connect to vpn to access viral sandbox , I get dns server as 10.10.20.100 but that server is not able to access internet on laptop. I know due to change in internet policy you are not allowing any lab device to not access internet but this should not apply to my laptop as I will be referring internet documents when building VIRL network in lab.

May be when I connect internet , you should give me public dns and have your internal dns for lab devices?

FYI ..

I did manually change my adapter settings to point dns to 8.8.8.8 but still internet was not working. I can resolve google.com with nslookup google.com 8.8.8.8 but I cant do ping -a google.com.I am fine when I disconnect vpn. May be you have to review dns server configured for vpn clients ?

I have reservation for next 4 days. Below is URL - devnetsandbox-us-sjc.cisco.com:20108

DNAC Hardware Lab

rasmus.elmholt — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:24:31 GMT

Thank you for some great labs.

After the maintenance window last weekend the DNA Center Hardware Lab 1 is no longer available.

In some of the old documentation I can see there once was 3 Hardware labs.

It would be great if you guys created a DNA Center Lab with some hardware again.

VPN problem

TK0521 — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:59:35 GMT

This is my first time connecting to the lab with CiscoAnyConnect. I was fine to establish the VPN in first time and then connected to the devices. However, due to my laptop was hang, I did the hard reboot. After the reboot, I failed to connect to VPN. The error messages were as attached.

I managed to connect back to the lab by end the lab and then did a new reserve. It seems the problem was due to my previous VPN connection was still active and the vpn system did not allow me to establish another new connection. May I have solution on this instead of re-do the reservation for same lab? Thanks.

Bulding a SD-Access fabric

Filip Po — Tue, 07 May 2019 19:29:38 GMT

It should be nice to have DNA Center Lab with ISE to fully build and see SD-Access from scratch. Include AD, DNS service. There is no possibility to build a demo SDA fabric with DNA-C for learning purpose in a lab environment.

Sandbox VPN Issues

tbamert — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:33:16 GMT

We care consistently having an issue connection via VPN to the PCCE Sandbox. The error message is: The secure gateway has rejected the connection attempt. A new connection attempt to the same or another secure gateway is needed, which requires re-authentication. The following message was received from the secure gateway: No assigned address We could use some assistance resolving this issue.

How Can we get the CLI user name and password of DNA center Lab

SawantKumarTiwari5180 — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:10:33 GMT

Hi Lab Team,I need to check installation procedure at lab,so can i get the the User name and password for CLI of DNAC,Please help for the same

NXAPI Sandbox needs a 9000v with 9.2(1) for newer APIs

Richard Hornbaker — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 23:48:31 GMT

Can we get an additional 9000v instance in the sandbox running 9.2(1) code?

Hardware VPN support for sandbox's

andrew.yearp — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:17:47 GMT

Would it be possible to add or extend hardware VPN support for more sandbox's?

It would be nice to be able to connect local equipment to apic-em or DNA centre.

Archived : Idea stage

nivmanoh — Tue, 22 May 2018 09:53:50 GMT

archive this

Reviewed Idea stage

nivmanoh — Tue, 22 May 2018 09:53:02 GMT

test the stage

Rejected stage Idea

nivmanoh — Tue, 22 May 2018 09:52:30 GMT

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Please test

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nivmanoh — Tue, 22 May 2018 06:22:37 GMT

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ACI - Sandbox upgrade to the new 3.0 release

ju.mahieu — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:26:38 GMT

Hi,

It's really nice to have access to the APIC Sandbox (version 2.2.2) available on sandbox aicdc.cisco.com.

Did you have already plan an upgrade to the latest release 3.0.x ?

It would be great :-).

Regards,

Timezone Hint

Joshua Warcop — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 02:06:38 GMT

Before creating a reservation a timezone hint would be great. Or a reminder in the tour to set the timezone in your profile.

Yes, I made a reservation in the wrong timezone. User error.

Network Service Orchestrator and WAN Automation Engine

Christopher Wetzel — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 11:27:11 GMT

Maybe I'm missing it in the Always On sandbox, but I'd like to see some comprehensive labs related to NSO and WAE so we can practice with them.

Thanks!

Chris

Acano Sandbox

hxinprysm — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:12:22 GMT

Could you set up Acano sandbox for developers to try? Thank you.

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Jabber Voice/Video - use the SDK without requiring user credentials

dstaudt — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:39:21 GMT

It is theoretically possible to init/use Jabber without requiring user credentials (as long as the device name is known), however there are no working examples of this.

JTAPI sample demonstrating use of 3rd party RTP library

dstaudt — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:37:43 GMT

JTAPI sample demonstrating use of 3rd party RTP library to playback an audio file.

Create inventory of existing Collab samples

dstaudt — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:36:16 GMT

Listing and high-level meta-details, e.g. API, product, language, sample type (code/protocol data), target versions, priority

Request for VM for Nexus 9000

amwhaley — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:16:04 GMT

This came in through the forums.

Nexus 9000 vm

created by ANDYW LEE in Developer - View the full discussion

Is there a test vm for Nexus 9000? I would like to test NX-API and python scripts on the OS.

Network automation for an onboarding setup scenario

amwhaley — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:49:22 GMT

This is from a question in our communties -

Automation Options for ASA 5585 and Nexus 7000

created by SEAN OBRIEN in Developer - View the full discussion

I'm trying to lay out any and all automation (remote) possibilities for our networking team.

The basic scenario is an onboarding setup

- Creating a context on the outer (5585)

- Creating two NATs (from 5585 to the VLAN on the 7000)

- Creating same NATs on the 7000

- Punch a number of ingress and egress rules into the same 2 devices for that context

This can all be done manually now by logging in and running CLI.

What are my options for automation for these devices, the amount of acronym **** among the various cisco APIs and solutions is overwhelming. I've read about some but ideally I'd like to use the same approach for both devices.

- Remotely executing python scripts

- NETCONF (looks like CLI commands as XML)

- SNMP (least common denominator?)

I've also read about management layers that sit about devices and provide a common API for management like APIC which exposes a REST API but I can't find any kind of matrix that shows that it can speak to these two devices.

Router Configs into DevHub

asroach — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:21:57 GMT

Create a middleware app that pushes/pulls config via APIC-EM and stores them in git

A bigger version of this could be:

Could we set it up so that Enterprises / Partners could upload their router configs into our system, and they could validate those configs, get sign off, etc, before pushing them live (or at least to a staging env’t). The network gear could get more tightly integrated with this by checking with the repo, and apply updates as appropriate. To a certain extent, this is what Puppet does, but not sure about the version control of configs and whatnot.

From Nathan:

This has been suggested before, and I have an example of this using onePK also with Maven unit tests driving configuration testing.

Atlassian Marketplace App

asroach — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:16:42 GMT

This isn't as much of a sample app, but more an integration. But, it'd be interesting to do an integration with Atlassian's On-Demand Marketplace.

Perhaps a Bamboo (CI) plug-in to the VIRL for developer / sandbox?

Maybe there are some notifications that can be sent into HipChat from APIC-EM / other controllers?

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/

EIoT IFTTT Interface

pnerger — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:54:03 GMT

The EIoT allows the control of USB devices via the Internet. Thus, you can take any USB device and using a special version of PyUSB (Cisco PyUSB) and a Cisco Doublemint kit you can initialize, read, and write to the USB device.

IFTTT (If This Then That) is an Internet service that allows applications to communicate between them based upon triggers.

EIoT should be integrated into IFTTT to allow it to participate as a citizen in IFTTT. For example, let's image a USB printer being connected to the Internet using Cisco PyUSB. If EIoT was a citizen of IFTTT, then you could write a IFTTT recipe that whenever you place a document in a particular folder in dropbox, then that document is printed on the EIoT connected printer. Or whenever you categorize a document within Evernote with the "Network Print" category, it is printed to the EIoT connected printer.

Notice that this approach would allow the printing to documents on non-split tunneling VPNs.

Display Graph of traffic by area

amwhaley — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:37:21 GMT

Create an application that shows a graph of the amount of traffic in different areas of a map.

This would be an example of some analytics that a user could see from CMX.

CDL Hello World

amwhaley — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:32:26 GMT

We need a Hello World for CDL. This should be an example that walks people through making their first API calls using CDL.

If there is a CDL sandbox available, then this Hello World should make use of the sandbox.

APIC-DC Hello World

amwhaley — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:28:11 GMT

We need a Hello World type example for APIC-DC.

If there is an APIC-DC sandbox, then we need to use the shared sandbox in this Hello World example.

A Javascript example showing how to create a heat map of traffic using CMX data

amwhaley — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:22:40 GMT

Create a javascript/html application that displays a heat map of the traffic using the CMX data.

Collection of REST Client examples for DMO REST calls to turn on an LED

amwhaley — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:20:01 GMT

Often at hackathons, some particpants may not be using Java. So the coders want to use the DMO REST APIs directly.

We need a collection of example API requests that can be used in the Firefox REST Client or Postman to show the sequence of calls to turn on an LED based on sensor input or something similar.