Sunday, January 3, 2021

SD-WAN Programmability Home Lab setup Steps

# GNS3


Steps to Install GNS3 

1) go to https://www.gns3.com/software/download

   a) create your account ( free)

   b) download gns3 & VM for GNS3 

2) Depent upon your choice download Hypervisors 

   a) Virtualbox, VMware workstation, VMware player, ESXi, Fusion

   b) i am using Virtualbox

3) Download Virtualbox from Oracle 

   https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

4) Once ready install gns3 and import VM for GNS3 inside Virtualbox 


===== Create your own lab and topology and do the labs =========


## Telnet / SSH / Install Python to make lab ready 

PYTHON3 NAPALM INSTALL:

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Use the following commands to install Python3 Netmiko and NAPALM:


apt-get update

apt-get install python3

apt-get install python3-pip

pip3 install -U netmiko

pip3 install -U napalm

pip3 install -U simplejson

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#pip3 install --upgrade pip

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apt-get install git

apt-get install python3-venv

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 Install and Setup

Clone the code to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/ai-devnet/Getting-started-with-Cisco-SD-WAN-REST-APIs.git

cd Getting-started-with-Cisco-SD-WAN-REST-APIs

Setup Python Virtual Environment (requires Python 3.6+)

apt-get install python3-venv

python3.6 -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

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