r/networkautomation

Hi there, has anyone gone to Cisco Live or planning to go this year? Any recommendations on talks, third party events, or key vendors to visit?

Thanks!

I figured I’d post here since many of you folks probably use ContainerLab. I used refplatinator to create docker images. Those images work fine. When I made docker images from the CSR1000v and XRV9K images, I can’t SSH into them. Sometimes, I can telnet to them from inside the container, but it’s about a 5-10% success rate. I checked the statistics on the router itself (when I’m able to connect), and the CPU is at 1%. The CPU for the docker images is 100%+ but it’s the same way for the working images. I’ve tried debugging tcp and ssh. Nothing shows up in the logs. I’ve ensured that the nodes are listening on 22. I can ping fine.

Any suggestions? I could run a tcpdump, but I’m guessing the data-plane is fine. Has anyone else experienced similar issues?

My account was deleted with no email as to why. Just stopped working. I emailed them and they say I broke some rule...yet never sent me the rule I broke or what was done. Just that they will not restore it.

I have emailed their support multiple times and they keep giving me the run around. I had to create a new account, and tried to email, and they say its not the original one, so I create new account with my original email, and they say it does not match!?

I have been in Tech Support roles for 20 years and this is by far the worst customer experience I have ever dealt with.

Has anyone ever been able to get their account restored?

Has anyone got any ideas of how to get this resolved?

Hey all,
I have a situation where I have 5 devices that are connected in my local network but only 1 external IP address available per robot from the clients end. I also have a wifi client connected to my local network in the robot. I’m planning to use port forward by putting a bunch of nat rules in my wifi client. But the problem is I have 4 mitsubishi drives of MR JEC series and a PLC of fx5uj series.

Ive tried port forwarding for the drives but since all of them communicate through cc link field basic, their ports are fixed. Is there a way to nat these drives? I also want to bring the drives in the same network, Incase I need to troubleshoot something in the future.

Seems like theres a similar issue with devices that communicate through Profinet? Is there any turn around for this?

I am building a solution which checks port reachability for multiple dns/apps from a source device. So, the solution first logs in to the device and then run telnet to dest host:port. And at a time one can check X number or device:port combination from the source device. The problem I am facing is:

For some DNS the telnet is hard to stop. I want to wait only for 5 seconds if its reachable or not. What I did is I used send_command_timing() with 5 seconds timeout and its working fine. But as soon as I am giving it another telnet its giving

read_channel_timing's absolute timer expired. The network device was continually outputting data for longer than 3 seconds .....

Manually after 4-5 ENTERs it stops. So I decided to do conn.write_channel("\n") 5 times after running telnet. But still no luck.

If you know how to solve this issue, please tell. Last option I will have is after each telnet close the connection and then again reconnect ( but I don't want to go this way ).

What are Network Automation Engineers getting paid these days? Been looking for a change, not sure if my salary is low, average, or high. I'm at ~150k AUD with 5+years of experience.

Curious about salary ranges based on experience, tech stack (Python/Ansible/NetBox/APIs/etc.), seniority, and industry

-- Edit: sorry, forgot to add I'm based in Australia. Still interested to know worldwide

Every time I read about network automation it feels like the conversation jumps from:

“we have a few scripts”

straight to:

“full NetBox / Ansible / pipelines / GitOps setup”

however, it feels like most environments sit somewhere awkwardly in the middle for years

bits of automation, some manual work, different tools not really tied together, and documentation half there.

curious what that middle stage actually looked like for other people and what pushed you beyond it (if you ever did)