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In the previous modules, you’ve learned how to create reports from data gathered from network devices, create device configurations from data models, automate device and service provisioning, and integrate individual components you built into a full-blown network services orchestration system.

It’s time to move to the next level: respond to significant events reported by your network in real time and adjust the network behavior accordingly. Welcome to the challenging world of Event-Driven Automation.

In this module, you’ll discover the unpleasant reality: it’s hard to define what an event is, and it’s hard to identify significant events based on plethora of messages the network devices are sending you in form of SNMP traps, SYSLOG messages or streaming telemetry. You’ll also find several tools you could use, and learn more about SALT, a tool that’s becoming more popular in complex automation environments that would be hard to handle with simple tools like Ansible.

In the last part of this module, David Gee documented his attempts to reach the holy grail of Self-Driving Networks, and the obstacles he encountered on his journey.

Guest speakers

The following guest speakers talked about event-driven automation:

• David Gee dived deep into principles of event-driven network automation;
• Mircea Ulinic described Salt, and how it can be used in event-driven infrastructure. In late 2020, Mircea added a deep dive into [ Salt Sproxy], an add-on module that enables large-scale network automation with Salt
• David Gee documented his Self-Driving Network adventure in November 2020

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