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Introduction
Gluware’s Intelligent Network Automation solution is a platform designed to help enterprises automate their networks quickly and efficiently reducing the need for scripting and manual toil.
This “Newbie to Ninja” course is designed to take a new user, who most likely is taking the free 30-day trial, and accelerate their ability to use Gluware proficiently. It is also a great jump start for enterprises that are using Gluware in production and looking to upgrade their skill set.
Beyond this course, there is tons more to learn and users can continue with the advanced training and examples on our frequently updated Gluware Youtube channel.
For questions and support during the free trial, please join our Gluware Slack Community here.
Course Format
This training consists of a series of use case videos to understand what you can do with Gluware and why it provides advantages over other approaches.
Moving on into the modules, the training will take you through installing Gluware, connecting to your devices (physical and virtual) and getting started with the application suite.
Users watch the tutorial videos and follow along in their Gluware instances. This course is based on the current release of Gluware 5.5.
Many of the modules point to resources to help you along in the training are located in the Gluware Github repo.
Use Cases
Before jumping into HOW to use Gluware, we wanted to share some examples of WHY with these use case videos including:
Modules
These modules are designed to be self-contained but are ideally executed in order.
- The positioning of Gluware
- The platform and application suite
- Top use cases
- Details on the Free Trial
- Prerequisites
- How to install
- Environments (physical and virtual)
- Installation Process
- Organizations and users
- Organization settings including Custom Fields, Data Retention, RBAC and more
- Credential management
- Solutions Manager and updating packages
- Adding devices, network discovery and device discovery
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Device Explorer
- Filter, search and sort inventory
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Site Explorer
- Create sites, assign devices
- Sync with external sources of truth
- Cisco support integration - EoX, Advisories and SmartNet
- NIST integration for CVEs
- Config Snapshot
- Adhoc Query
- Config Backup and Restore
- Logs
- How to use Config Drift
- Using Custom Capture commands to drift operational state
- Remediating when drift is detected (Continued in Network RPA)
- How to use Config Audit
- Importing and exporting audit policies including examples from Github
- Using Custom Capture commands to audit operational state
- Remediating when audit violations are detected (Continued in Network RPA)
- Introduction to dashboards including installing examples from Github
- Understand how to build, customize and share dashboards
- An overview of the prerequisites to run OS Manager and setting up the File Server(s)
- Includes licensing, role-based access control (RBAC) and OS Manager settings
- Using the OS Manager App including the Device Explorer, Catalogs and Plans
- Understand how to create and execute plans to transfer and/or deploy images
- Introduction to Config Model Editor
- Loading example feature packages from Github
- Automating configuration management (example with common globals)
- How to build and use State Assessment
- Intelligent Model Discovery
- Introduction to Network RPA including creating and running a basic workflow
- Using state assessment for pre/post checks and troubleshooting
- Calling a workflow via API
- External integrations including API calls, OS Shell commands and more
- Using LiquidJS templating to format output
- Run Ansible Playbooks
- Network RPA can be used to drive complex multi-vendor process automation with ServiceNow integration
- Introduction to Data Explorer with an overview examples in Github
- Generate reports for inventory, PSIRT summary, Config Drift and Audit and Layer 2 Port State
- Understand how to build, customize and share new templates
- Gluware Topology application
- Advanced use case automating multi-vendor TrustSec with ServiceNow integration
- Deep dive into advanced network discovery
- Use Gluware to run an Ansible playbook
- Use Gluware to automate Linux Hosts and run Python scripts
- Gluware integration with CyberArk
- Automate Cisco Meraki