BRKIOT-2109 – Connecting Oil & Gas Pipelines
Presenter: Konrad Reszka, IoT Vertical Solutions Group Engineering Lead
Given a chance, how many people in this room would volunteer to be a meteorologies in San Diego?
Inflection point between 2009 and 2010 where the number of connected devices began to out number the connected people. 50 billion “things” by 2020. And this doesn’t include phones and tablets. It’s other smart devices.
Shift in dominant endpoints: from consumers (people) to devices (like sensors and such). This shift demands changes in the network to support this growth.
Cisco + Schneider Electric joint functional reference model for connected pipelines.
- Modular approach
- Pick the pieces you want
- ISA99 model
- Modern approach, such as virtualization
- Forthcoming reference model with Cisco + Rockwell
Isolate your enterprise network from the operations network.
- Industrial DMZ at level 3.5 (in the ISA99 model)
- “Pull the plug” if need be and airgap the OT network from the enterprise network
- Makes compliance/audits esier
In the erm… pipeline:
- Connected Pipelines Cisco Validated Design
- Schneider Electric TVDA (their version of a CVD)
- Both docs are being co-written by Cisco and Schneider
Had to leave session halfway through due to an overlapping MtE session.
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Juniper’s Security CTO, Christofer Hoff, Leaves the Valley
Juniper loses a big name to the world outside Silicon Valley.
Cisco Live 2015 – Day 1
It has been an interesting start to Cisco Live 2015 this year. It is nice to see everyone refreshing friendships between people that we have not seen since San Francisco, if not longer. It is great to see many of the old (guess that what happens as years pass) faces that I have seen over […]
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DEVNET-1001 – Coding 101
How to Call REST APIs from a REST Client and Python
Presenter: Matt (didn’t catch last name, sorry)
I was late to this session because of wonderful San Diego traffic :-/
A walk-through of using the REST API on APIC-EM.
http://learninglabs.cisco.com – sample code, docs
Postman – plugin for Chrome browser to craft, send, receive API commands over HTTP using a nice graphical interface. Helpful for building and testing queries and also viewing the raw output from the controller that you’re querying. Is there an equivalent for Firefox?
APIC-EM docs fully cover the API. Methods, variables, etc.
“Requests” library in Python – simplifies the CRUD operations in Python.
When you’re in the lab, verifying the SSL cert of your controller (in your code) might be optional. Don’t bring that into prod code. Get a proper cert and have your code validate the cert.
Other references:
- http://developer.cisco.com
- http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book
- http://api.jquery.com
- http://codeacademy.com/tracks/python
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6 Essential First Steps in a New Network Admin Job
by Dana Vandepoele, originally published on the Auvik blog In a perfect world, every admin starting a new job would find copiousArchitect or Designer?
Are you an architect or designer? What’s the difference? A reader asked this last week in email — my (probably) less than perfect response.
First, we have to dispense with this objection — network people aren’t “architects” in the first place. Nor are they “engineers.” Okay, so… A challenge: what else would you call someone who designs and builds things? When someone says, “You’re not a real architect, because you don’t build buildings, and you’re not held responsible for your work,” I tend to reply, “Why are you talking to me if I don’t exist?”
I’ve probably spent a lot more time than most people thinking about what the difference between design and architecture is, as it was a major issue when the CCDE and CCAr were split into two certifications (long ugly story — but then again, whenever marketing is involved, it normally is). With the help of some psychos (psychometricians, actually, but saying you worked with psychos for seven years to develop certification just sounds cooler somehow), we came up with some differentiators that I think are useful.
The difference is in focus, not task — the designer focuses on a solution to a narrower engineering problem, Continue reading