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Reading Time: 3 minutes A Brief Interlude In my first post in this series, I dove into utilizing Regular Expressions (Regex) to parse network device output. Before I continue with some of the other parsing options, I thought it would be worthwhile to post a short blog laying out some definitions that I’ll be relying on. Specifically Iâ€™ll be using them for delineation among the different parsing options and their use cases. At the heart of this problem, is that when interacting with traditional

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Parsing Network Device Output Part 1: Regex

March 4, 2020March 14, 2020 Brett

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the Beginning… Often when making their first steps into Network Automation, people may have an idea of what they want to do, but not exactly how to get there. For example, an engineer may want to simplify a single time-intensive task “Gather the SW version, serial numbers, and uptime from all of my Cisco ASAs.” However, upon getting the information, they’re unsure what to do with it or how to parse it and use it for something else. I’ve

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