Nautobot Monthly: Unifying Inventory and Visibility Across Cisco SDN Platforms with Nautobot

June 28, 2023

Gain a comprehensive view of your entire network infrastructure and streamline operations with Nautobot’s Cisco SDN Integration
In today’s complex world of network management, your data strategy needs to account for multiple sources of network data. While controllers have undoubtedly improved network reliability and management, they have also introduced their fair share of challenges. As networks expand, issues of controller sprawl begin to emerge. This lack of visibility complicates every aspect of network management, from addressing incidents to implementing changes.

In this webinar, you will learn how Nautobot’s Cisco SDN integrations bring together the power of Nautobot’s comprehensive network management capabilities with the versatility and scale of Cisco’s SDN solutions, including Meraki, Viptela SD-WAN, DNA Center, and ACI, providing a holistic view of your entire SDN network environment from a single, unified screen. This integration solves the challenges posed by multi-domain networks, enabling network administrators to gain a comprehensive view of their entire network infrastructure and streamline operations. By employing a data-centric approach coupled with a DevOps automation environment, Nautobot enables the execution of workflows that were previously arduous or even impossible to create.

Nautobot Monthly: The Key to Clean Data for Network Automation

April 27, 2023

Enforce and Codify Your Organization’s Business Logic with Nautobot’s Data Validation Engine.

Data is key to network automation, and trusted, correct data is key to successful network automation. Just because a Source of Truth (SoT) is in place does not automatically mean all of the data in the SoT is accurate. It is a complex challenge to ensure that high-quality and accurate data is stored in the Source of Truth. For network automation to be successful, the data that drives that automation must be trusted, and for the data to be trusted, there must be constraints within the data model to enforce its correctness. Oftentimes, the correctness must be codified to meet organizational standards.

In this webinar, you will learn how Nautobot empowers you to enforce and codify your organization’s specific business logic constraints through its Data Validation Engine Application and custom data validators feature set within Nautobot, allowing for smooth integrations into existing ecosystems and the ability to put guardrails around its use to ensure that network data housed within Nautobot can be trusted. All organizations operate differently, and each will have nuanced ways to manage and configure their networks that ultimately dictate constraints in their network SoT data. The Data Validation Engine Application goes one step further in providing a user-friendly, no-code solution to common data validation use cases.

Firewall & Security Automation with Nautobot & Panorama

December 15, 2022

Palo Alto’s Panorama has been deployed for years as the single management interface for Palo Firewalls, but how does Panorama fit into an overall network automation strategy? How can you manage Palo Firewalls as code? How can you manage inventory and policy in a Network Source of Truth and have it dynamically update Panorama?

While the Network as Code movement continues to grow, there has been little focus on integrating security infrastructure and domain managers such as Panorama. In this webinar, you will learn how you can manage Palo Alto Firewalls as Code through Panorama by using Ansible, Nautobot, and the Nautobot Single Source of Truth Application.

Agenda:

• Current State of Enterprise Network Automation 
• Enterprise Data Management & Governance
• Introduction to Nautobot SSoT
• Existing Nautobot SSoT Integrations 
• Nautobot SSoT Demos 
• What’s next for NTC in Data Management