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Network State Validation With Ansible

Posted on 4th October 20208th October 2020 by Dave

I’ve been playing with Ansible recently in order to push configuration out to the network, and have been interested in validating the state of the network both before and after a change. I came across Nick Russo’s excellent git repository which does just that. Testing the state of the network when changes are done manually […]

Streaming Telemetry with Telegraf, Influx & Grafana

Posted on 8th January 20203rd October 2020 by Dave

Overview The current methods of getting statistics out of the network equipment is to use SNMP. This can provide lots of in depth statistics about the health and status of the network. While this has worked fine for many years, it has its limitations. All statistics need to be collected and provided by the routing […]