Nautobot Monthly | Nautobot’s Golden Config Application: Revolutionizing Network Integrity With Advanced Network Automation

September 28, 2023

Welcome to the world of network automation and configuration management! In this video, we explore the powerful capabilities of Nautobot’s Golden Config App, a game-changer for network engineers and administrators.

🚀 Key Highlights:

Configuration Remediation: Learn how Nautobot’s Golden Config App intelligently identifies discrepancies between intended and actual configurations, making it a breeze to keep your network compliant.

Content-Aware Compliance Diff: Dive into the app’s content-aware compliance diff feature, which helps you spot missing or extra configurations, even on diverse devices like routers, switches, and firewalls.

Versatile Device Compatibility: Discover how this app can be your go-to solution for various network devices, including Linux servers. Gain full awareness of your network environment and its status.

New Features Breakdown: We break down the latest features into three categories – remediation, configuration plans, and deployment – giving you a clear roadmap to network automation success.

Customization and Deployment: Explore the customization options for remediation settings and configuration plans. We also discuss deployment methods and future plans for configuration replacement.

Whether you’re a seasoned network pro or just getting started with network automation, Nautobot’s Golden Config App empowers you to streamline your network’s configuration management like never before.

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Getting Started with Network Source of Truth & Data-Driven Network Automation with Nautobot

September 13, 2023

Learn Why Data is The Key to Unlocking Successful Enterprise Network Automation.

Network Automation continues to grow by companies independent of size or vertical. Often it’s asked, can’t the network be my Source of Truth (SoT)? The answer is no; the network is your source of reality, not truth. Just as network architecture documents describe the intended architecture, the Network Source of Truth defines the intended state of the network. Think of automation as a journey with a spectrum of capabilities along the way. As you start progressing into orchestration and closed loop automation where timing is critical, feedback is required, and there are multiple tasks or devices in the workflow; that type of automation requires defining the intended state of the network and having programmatic access to that data. Performing manual tasks while not understanding the desired state create an unreliable infrastructure that leads to lost revenue and business opportunity.

In this monthly webinar, you will learn why an authoritative Network Source of Truth is necessary for a network automation framework. We’ll cover how Nautobot, an open source Network Source of Truth, helps organizations take back control of their network with a data-driven approach to network automation. Eliminate spreadsheets and easily manage everything from inventory and IPAM to BGP, Firewall Policies, and much more! Finally, you’ll see how aggregating your network into Nautobot accelerates your network automation by examining and learning about the Nautobot App Ecosystem.

Nautobot Monthly: Simplify and Automate Data Center Floor Plans and Rack Layouts with Nautobot

August 31, 2023

Introducing the Nautobot Floor Plan App for Intuitive Visualization and Planning

Discover the future of network management and spatial optimization in this Nautobot Monthly webinar. Say goodbye to the complexities of managing disparate data systems and the challenges of visualizing the relationships within your network infrastructure. In this webinar, we give you an exclusive introduction to the Nautobot Floor Plan Application, the latest addition to the Nautobot App Ecosystem. Nautobot’s Floor Plan Application significantly changes how organizations map, strategize, and use their physical spaces within data centers and colocation facilities. Nautobot Floor Plan empowers teams to gain immense network insights and plan their physical spaces in Nautobot.

The app transcends simple diagrams, enabling swift modeling of the physical space and quick navigation to other related data, such as power utilization in a given rack or a specific device model in a specific rack unit. Furthermore, Nautobot’s automation features, such as robust RESTful APIs and GraphQL interface, allow for immersive programmatic integration with an organization’s automation infrastructure. This allows teams to build towards fully automating space and power planning workflows, including tasks like executing space and power reports for specific pods, rows, and racks.