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A Guide to Cisco Support API's - Part 2 - EoX

The Cisco Support API's provide some very useful end-points that enable you to gain efficiencies on managing your Cisco hardware and software inventory. In this post I present the use of the End of Life (EoX) API that allows you to identify end-of-life equipment within your environment. The code snippets below will be written in in Python and closely follows my Cisco Support API Query Repo on GitHub. Feel free to clone the repo, I intend to include more API end-points in the near future.

For a more general overview of the Cisco Support API's refer to part 1 of this series.

A Guide to Cisco Support API's - Part 1

Managing your network infrastructure hardware, software and maintenance lifecycle workflow tends to be a painful process. It means gathering large amounts of telemetry from your network devices, transforming that data into a format (excel, csv, etc) that you can use to compare, update, and track and then determine the actions you need to take. A year later you get to wash-rinse-repeate the whole process over again. If you are fortunate enough to have a configuration management database (CMDB), this becomes easier, but often these applications require some level of manual effort to keep up-to-date. They can also cost you financially, sometimes more than you are willing or able to pay.

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2021 01 31 welcome

Welcome to my site! I'm looking forward to sharing all sorts of exciting posts on networking technologies and automation. I have a particular interest in SD-WAN, security, and automation with python.

Stay tuned for up-coming posts, and any feecback you may have would be greatly appreciated!