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Testing before you touch production shouldn't be optional. Palmer Sample, Technical Leader on the Learn with Cisco team, walks through PyATS, Cisco's Python Automated Test System, covering testbeds, triggers, job files, and the Genie APIs that handle...

YANG API discovery on IOS XE is painful. Jeremy Cohoe, TME at Cisco, built a searchable Swagger UI to fix that: 988 specs, 82K API paths, YANG trees, telemetry XPaths, RPC operations, and Postman collections across 5 IOS XE releases. Watch the full w...

I started learning networking through the CLI, I used to think that being a good network engineer meant knowing hundreds of commands by heart. And to be fair, CLI skills are still important. You need to understand routing, switching, troubleshooting,...

I have been able to use this yang model to get a lot information about AP: https://wlc_ip/restconf/data/Cisco-IOS-XE-wireless-access-point-oper:access-point-oper-dataBut that YANG model does not have any information about APs that goes down, and fall...

 does anyone know of an open-config path that returns the max speed of an interface for cisco c9ks running 17.9?  I tried /oc-if:/interfaces/interface/ethernet/config/port-speed - Doesn't exist /oc-if:interfaces/interface/ethernet/state/negotiated-po...

Hi all,I'd like to parse multiple L3Out bgp table on my border leaf but I can't find any suitable command parser in genie. I've tried multiple commands that are on the parser list but none of them worked for me.  Isn't it possible to parse ACI"show b...

Made a post in the wrong forum. Hopefully this is the correct one. Does anyone here have any experience with AI automation tools? We have been looking closely at tools like Cisco AI Canvas, and other 3rd party tools like mploi.ai and was curious if a...

pyATS has HTML log viewer which spins local web server when using the command "pyats logs view"Seems the test data comes from a .zip file which gets created after tests has been executed.How can that .zip file be converted to HTML for local viewing i...

Hello,I am failing to run multi-threaded t-rex.I have done following till now:1) I had upgraded firmware from following location:https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/BCM957608-P2200G_FW_235.1.160.0https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/NXE_Linux_niccli_235.1.151.0...

I would like to have multiple test suite .py files which will be run as a bundle by pyATS job.How can I have single defined common setup/cleanup routines which will run once whenever the pyATS job is executed instead of having the same common setup/c...

Using EOS unicon plugin to connect to Arista switch.During device.connect(), password is sent and unicon logs: %UNICON-INFO: +++ connection to spawn: ssh .... Then it times out with TimeoutError error.One specific fact for this Arista switch is that ...

Hello!   i have a perfectly working python script using Netmiko for connection to the devices and PyAts/Genie to do all the parsing, and it works beautifully, i have my organization devices inventory on an excel spreadsheet and with the script i can ...