Adam Radford is a Distinguished Systems Engineer based in Sydney, Australia. His background is software and automation, having spent 10 years building and automating campus networks. He then joined Cisco and has focused on a variety of technologies including voice, wireless and data center. In recent times his focus has been Enterprise networks, specifically automation and programmability.
Adam has a first class honors degree in Science, majoring in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Discover the magic behind the scenes of Cisco DNA Center networking. 'pnp startup-vlan' magically creates vlan, trunk and ether channel on an out-of-the-box switch. Simplify the provisioning process.
See how to use the new Cisco DNA Center python SDK to integrate into Telgraf/Influx/Grafana and create a Network/User health dashboard for the Network Operations Center.
One aspect of automation involves the template programmer, which uses the velocity templating language. Here, we use a template to assign a vlan to an interface on a switch.
Previously, PnP was a standalone application within Cisco DNA Center, with a dedicated workflow for onboarding devices. In the 1.2.8 release, PnP has been integrated into the main provisioning screen.