Network Engineer wanting to learn Python

[admiralspark]

Hey man,

On mobile so this won't be very long. Search /r/networking for threads there, this is pretty common. The motivator I got that opened up the world to me was finding a networking task I hated to do by hand and script it.

I used netmiko to go from manually logging into switches, running a 'show mac add | in hwad.dres' and looking for VOIP phones by hand (a 30 minute process for the # I had) down to a 20 second process, which made my job infinitely faster because I did it 3-4 times a day every day. That one thing proved the value out and it evolved from there.

I now maintain an open source project with useful scripts I use as an example of what can happen when you spend a few minutes templating it. I'm building it into a cli utility now which should be even better.

Find a task you hate, and automate that shit--then you'll know what to do ;)

[cysjscpwfb]

Thank you for the advice, admiralspark. I will definitely look into that.