Network automation seriously has been talking since 2010. Cisco and other vendor are trying to bring to compliance their product to get data from their product with various scripts. The methods are changing but the goal is the same; to get useful data from network devices. Receiving data on network devices has been done for a long time if you know to script. But today it's piece of cake with python language. Python has a large library also to learn is pretty easy. Let's prepa