10 Common Network Automation Use Cases
One of the biggest challenges with network automation is where to start, here are my top 10 network automation use cases to get you started, these will all fit into 3 main categories.
Read Only Automation Use Cases
These are great use cases to get started with network automation as you have zero chance of causing any outages on the network. Read only tasks will just go out to the network and retrieve information and present it in an easy to consume format.
1. Software Version Check
2. Configuration Management
3. Configuration Compliance Check
Device Provisioning Automation Use Cases
All use cases in this category will start to make changes to your network devices and full under the configuration management category, normally once a new device is on the network these tasks can provision the device.
Service Provisioning Automation Use Cases
All uses cases in this category will add new services or functionality to the network.
