Beginner
Your First Network Automation
Build a complete network health check end to end — inventory, a simulated connection layer, validation, and a real report.
This module is where the earlier Python and data-format lessons become one real project: a complete network health check, built end to end. You'll plan the project the way an engineer would before writing a line of code, build a real inventory layer from CSV, and construct a simulated device-connection function that stands in exactly where a real SSH connection will go in the next module. From there you'll validate results and produce a genuine saved report. Nothing here touches a real device yet -- that's intentional, so the project's structure is solid before Netmiko Fundamentals adds a live connection to it.
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Planning Your First Automation Project
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Planning Your First Automation Project
Before writing a single line of code, scope your first real automation project the way an engineer would — inputs, process, output, and how to test it without a real device.
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Building the Inventory Layer
Load a real device inventory from CSV and validate it before anything downstream depends on it — the first real stage of this module's project.
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Simulating Device Connections Safely
Build the seam this whole project pivots on — a simulated connection function that stands in exactly where a real Netmiko-based SSH connection will go next module.
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Validating Results and Building the Report
Turn a device's raw simulated state into a plain-language compliance status, and start building the project's saved JSON report.
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Putting It All Together: The Complete Project
The capstone lesson: assemble the inventory layer, the simulated connection, and validation and reporting into one complete, real, runnable network health check.
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Practice this module
Apply what you just covered -- hands-on practice and a knowledge check for this module.