Networking Field Day 28

In this introductory session, Ernest Lefner will provide an overview of Gluware and its intelligent automation platform and solutions. He will also provide insights into the direction the industry is moving, including the current state of NetDevOps and how Gluware is accelerating users on the path to AIOps.

In this session, Michael Haugh will introduce Gluware Network RPA, highlight its integration into the Gluware Intelligent Network Automation Suite, and demonstrate how it adds drag-and-drop process building to develop, test, deploy, run and monitor process automation. The session will also feature a “Standard” N-RPA demo that will showcase the ability to build a workflow using the drag-and-drop interface, test the workflow, then advance it to production. Michael will then perform a production run to highlight Gluware’s workflow monitor and logs.

Tim Silverline will build on the previous session to cover a security use case that includes external integrations, specifically StackStorm API integrations including AWS and Ansible. This session will also feature a demo that shows how Gluware Network RPA integrates programmatically with the ONUG CSNF framework to enable event-based automated security response using programmatic interaction with Network RPA to perform configuration drift and audit on the network along with updating an AWS inbound ACL to block a bad actor as part of the response. An Ansible playbook will be called to perform automated verification.

Michael Haugh presents a use case where a customer needs a custom ServiceNow integration. It will highlight how Gluware Lab can be used to create a custom task that will be published into the user’s Gluware Control instance for use in the Network RPA as a custom task. This session’s demo will showcase a situation where a customer needs a capability, such as API integration with ServiceNow. Mike will demonstrate how Gluware Lab can be used to build the task (a wizard-assisted JNIB), package it in a capsule and install it into the instance. He will then use Network RPA to build a basic workflow using the new task.