BUILDING-A-TROUBLESHOOTING-ASSISTANT

Network Automation is becoming increasingly important for managing and maintaining large-scale networks efficiently. If you're working with Cisco Switch Nexus 9000 NX-OS, you might be familiar with the Embedded Event Manager (EEM) and the importance of capturing logs when specific events occur on your interfaces.

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In this project, we'll be exploring the powerful CLI library in Cisco Switch Nexus 9000 NX-OS and leveraging it to build a troubleshooting assistant that can automate the process of capturing logs and storing them in the bootflash. By the end of this project, you'll have a better understanding of how to use EEM, CLI libraries, and automation to streamline your network operations and troubleshoot issues faster.

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How can we know the status changed?
Syslog
Where run the command?
Onbox Nexus 9000
How to send the command to nexus 9000?
Using Cli library of Python
Where we are going to save the information?
Bootflash
How to xtract the information allocated in the Nexus
Using SCP

Library to interact: Cli, scp

Topics	Description	Title	Notes
INSTALL PYTHON AND DEPENDENCIES	Install Python 3.10.2.	INSTALL PYTHON AND DEPENDENCIES	In this first step you install your Python.
INSTALL ANYCONNECT VPN CLIENT	Install VPN Client via CLI	INSTALL ANYCONNECT VPN CLIENT	In this second step you are going to install your vpn anyconnect client.
INSTALL GIT	Install GIT via CLI	INSTALL GIT	In this step you install git in your environment.
SCRIPT ASSISTANT	Script Assistant onbox in Nexus 9000	SCRIPT ASSISTANT ONBOX	In this step you are going to create the code to capture information if exist an event.
SCRIPT TO EXTRACT FOLDER	Script files using scp in Python	EXTRACT NEXUS 9000 FILES	In this step you are going to dowload the files captured previously via Python.

PROOF OF CONCEPT

BUILDING-A-TROUBLESHOOTING-ASSISTANT.mp4

REFERENCES

Devnet Sandbox to test owner Inventory
JSON to test format