[How to] Webex Chatbot (Part 2): Digging in to Adaptive Cards

In this post, we’ll expand upon the previous Webex weather bot & add in AdaptiveCards to improve user interaction.

March 12, 2022 · 12 min · 2499 words · Matt Schmitz

[How To] Building a Simple Webex Chatbot with Python Websockets & OpenWeather APIs

Let’s build a simple chatbot using Cisco Webex that can query the weather!

November 18, 2021 · 10 min · 2067 words · Matt Schmitz

Network Engineering: Do I REALLY Need to Learn to Code?

Is learning Python really necessary for your networking career? Let’s investigate

October 13, 2021 · 7 min · 1374 words · Matt Schmitz

From Postman to Python: Your First GET Request

Let’s walk through a few simple Postman requests, and show how to do the same with Python

March 11, 2021 · 12 min · 2514 words · Matt Schmitz

Automating the CLI (Part 2): Building a Web Dashboard with Flask & Bootstrap

Building on the last post, we’ll show how easy it an be to build a Flask dashboard

October 12, 2020 · 11 min · 2340 words · Matt Schmitz

Automating the CLI: Using Scrapli & Cisco Genie to Collect Interface Data

Let’s look at one way to automate routine CLI-based tasks using Scrapli & Cisco Genie

September 8, 2020 · 8 min · 1624 words · Matt Schmitz

Cisco Firepower - Automating Cellular Failover

How I automated internet uplink monitoring & route injection on a Cisco Firepower Firewall

July 17, 2020 · 10 min · 1922 words · Matt Schmitz

You Should Automate Something This Year

Need a push to start learning network automation?

January 9, 2018 · 6 min · 1149 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 4 – Polling the SRX)

This post focuses on the Juniper SRX side of my VPN dashboard - writing the Python scripting to query VPN status from each device

July 4, 2017 · 6 min · 1212 words · Matt Schmitz

Building a VPN Dashboard using Django and JunOS pyEZ (Part 3 – Creating the Dashboard)

This post focuses on the web GUI side of the VPN dashboard - storing & displaying the information that gets collected

June 27, 2017 · 11 min · 2237 words · Matt Schmitz