By Gilbert Moisio, Senior consultant, specialist on knowledge acquisition, technologies and methodologies. He published several papers about automation, Software-Defined Networking and Wi-Fi. His website: https://moisio.fr/
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch portfolio of switches have two operating systems to simplify equipment automation: AOS6 and AOS8.
Figure 1- Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Network Automation
AOS8 has more automation features than AOS6, but the common features between the two systems are:
- Zero-touch Provisioning.
- DHCP / FTP / TFTP servers.
- OmniVista 2500 NMS on-premise or cloud server, such as OmniVista Cirrus.
- DHCP / FTP / TFTP servers.
- Python / SSH with my Netmiko module in Off-box scripting.
- I recommend using Netmiko with the Python Nornir framework: More information about this framework are available in this previous article on Spacewalkers.
- I recommend using Netmiko with the Python Nornir framework: More information about this framework are available in this previous article on Spacewalkers.
- Ansible / SSH with my Network Modules available in the Galaxy.
On AOS8, an Off-box automation method consists of using the Python language and access to Web Services. This approach allows you to build a complete application in CLI mode or in web mode with a framework like Django or Flask.
You can find more information about the Python code by following this link to the article written by Gilbert Moisio: https://moisio.fr/category/ale/
