For a while now I’ve been playing with NETCONF primarily with Cisco Nexus devices.
Quite frequently I write and build code to control and harvest data from network infrastructure.
A previous post listed the excitement I felt when reading through the Cavium XPliant announcement.
One of my biggest annoyances for a while has been the lack of interest in IPv6 in the UK.
With all of the current trends coming in to the industry around policy based network configuration, network automation and controller value add, do you understand why and where the trends are coming from?
Before we go in to observed trends, let’s put some context on this post and definitions around monitoring.