In this chapter, we will see some of the tools that help us in working on planning our automation projects, and some examples to interact with some increasingly complex scenarios related to various devices or network technologies.

Some of the aspects that we will be working on are:

• Interaction with Splunk
• BGP and routing table
• Wireless client to AP to switchport
• Phone to switchport
• WLAN and IPAM
• Useful best practices and use cases