New Learn by Doing Example Series

[Jason Belk]

I am the NSO Technical Evangelist in the NSO BU. I have started a series I am calling "Learn by Doing", which I take one topic to learn and one use case (as simple as possible, and as focused as possible) and create a repo with some simple explanation that will work on the DevNet NSO reservable sandbox  .

I have made a few so far and they are on GitHub / DevNet Code Exchange:

https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/jabelk/radius_server_example  (FOR loops in XML templates and using IOS radius server config)

https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/jabelk/ntp_server_example

(Service Template Conditionals, Foreach Template Device looping and using NTP IOS config)

https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/jabelk/svi_verify_example

(Service Health Verification and Importing Packages, using Nexus / ASA SVI Config)

https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/jabelk/ansible-nso-restconf  

(Using Ansible RESTCONF modules to configure NSO, YAML and Infra as Code)

https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/github/repo/jabelk/python_nso_commit_flags 

(Commit dry-run using Python API)

I have already asked for feedback in this discussion post, but would love to hear more thoughts people have, especially customers or potential customers. (And a big thanks to those who already responded!)

My question is this:

What parts of NSO would you like to see covered and/or what focused and simple use cases (that are feasible in a CML 2.0 virtual topology of IOS/XR/ASA/NX devices) are interesting to you?

Thanks!

[ryahoffman]

Hi Jason,

It's been awhile since you originally posted this.  I'd be interested in seeing an example of how NSO can support a template that maps the results of a 'show command' counter from a vendor proprietary netconf data model, into an industry standard data model on NSO's northbound interface.  ARP would be a nice simple example.  How can the result of a "show arp" be mapped from SROS to openconfig?  

Thanks,
Ryan