DevNet Sandbox CML

[5fishc83]

Hey all! 

I am trying to host the TIG stack on my personal laptop so I can collect and store Netconf data from a network I will be building in the reserved CML instance. 

However, I am having some problems being able to connect to my personal laptop. Is this an actual rule that you can connect to your personal computer via ext-connector ? 

Kind Regards,

Cian

[bigevilbeard · Accepted solution]

@5fishc83 happy to be wrong here, but i do not think you can. I think you would be best building this on the local devbox in the sandbox, I think this is how @Jesus Illescas did this https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/jillesca/AI-Network-Troubleshooting-PoC/

I also saw this recent which shows how you can do this https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tig-cisco-sandbox-abu-hayat-khan/ - seems pretty straight forward.

If this doesnt suit your needs you could try the free version of the CML, if you only building a small network of course. 

[5fishc83]

Hey @bigevilbeard 

This comment has saved many of my hours of head banging, thank you!

I have been trying to learn how @Jesus Illescas  was trying to do this and couldn't figure out but the Linkedin post explains it all. 

Also, didn't realise there was a free CML instance, so thank you again!

Kind Regards,

Cian

[bigevilbeard]

No problem, happy to help!

[Jesus Illescas]

Hi @5fishc83 unfortunately docker was removed from the DevBox VM which made some scenarios easier. 

In my case, what I did was to use telegraf to pull telemetry data using NETCONF. I used a small library I wrote around ncclient and ran it inside the telegraf container using the exec plugin.

You can see that here https://github.com/jillesca/AI-Network-Troubleshooting-PoC/blob/main/telegraf/config/netconf.conf

By the way, glad this was sorted out. @bigevilbeard always to the rescue.