How-To
Focused how-to guides that solve a single network automation task quickly and reliably.
Compliance Without the Spreadsheet: Continuous Posture for Network Devices
The Compliance panel runs your hardening rule packs across the fleet, scores devices, and tracks drift so audits start with evidence, not promises.
Read →Inventory & IPAM: The Source of Truth Your Scripts Actually Trust
Upload a CSV, connect to NetBox, or generate an IP range — Inventory normalises every source into the same validated row shape for the platform.
Read →Runbooks: Living Documents That Run
Runbooks combine narrative, parameters, and executable scripts so on-call engineers stop choosing between reading the doc and fixing the problem.
Read →Read a Packet Capture Like an Engineer: Turning a .pcap Into a Root Cause
Upload a capture and the PCAP Analyzer decodes conversations, flags retransmissions, resets, and handshake failures, and hands you a NAPT script to confirm the fix.
Read →Verifying MPLS L3VPNs with Python: RD, RT, and the Routes That Should Be There
Pull show vrf detail, check route-target import/export consistency across PEs, and prove customer routes are actually crossing the core.
Read →Continuous Compliance: Scoring Your Network Against CIS Benchmarks
Model CIS Level 1 and Level 2 controls, score every device, track the trend, and drive automated remediation on a weekly cron.
Read →The Template Library: A Vetted Catalog of Reusable Network Tasks
Browse, search, and filter hundreds of pre-built, parameterised templates — then drop them straight into a workflow or run them as-is.
Read →The Script Catalog: A Searchable Shelf of Ready-to-Run Network Scripts
Browse curated, parameterised scripts by task and vendor, preview what each one does, and run it through the platform's safe execution pipeline.
Read →BGP Config-as-Code: Ship Peering Changes Through a Pipeline, Not a Terminal
Treat BGP configuration like software: store intent in git, lint and dry-run it in a pipeline, gate the deploy behind an approval, and verify the session came up — all without an SSH session.
Read →Automated Compliance Audits: Turn a Quarterly Scramble Into a Nightly Cron
Manual CIS/NIST audits are stale the moment they finish. Run them continuously in a scheduled pipeline, auto-file tickets for findings, and watch your compliance score trend up.
Read →Stop Hardcoding Device Passwords: A Secrets Vault for Network Automation
Plaintext credentials in playbooks and scripts are the most common — and most dangerous — automation mistake. Here's how to inject secrets at run time from a vault instead.
Read →BGP Fault Finding With Python: A Step-by-Step Guide
Walk the BGP state machine with Python: pull neighbor state, classify why a session is stuck, and emit findings you can act on.
Read →Automating MPLS VPN Verification With Python
Verify L3VPN end to end with Python: check VRF presence, route-target import/export, PE-CE adjacency, and reachability across the MPLS core.
Read →Security Automation: Running CIS Benchmarks on Your Fleet
Turn the CIS benchmark into automated checks: score every device, track the trend, and remediate the gaps that matter most.
Read →Lab Platform Connections: Verify Changes Before They Hit Production
Register lab platform connections with an API endpoint and a Vault credential reference, validate them before saving, and launch lab verifications hands-off.
Read →Session Audit: Navigable History Organized by Units of Work
Flat event logs are hard to reason about. Session Audit groups activity into sessions — continuous units of work — that you can filter and pin.
Read →Vendor-Specific SD-WAN Automation Templates for WAN, Migration & Operations
Generic SD-WAN guidance only goes so far. NAPT's template library now covers six vendors with implementation, migration, and operations templates you can filter directly.
Read →Automation Fitment: Match Network Tooling to the Estate, Not the Hype
Choosing NAPALM vs Netmiko, cloud vs on-prem runners, or NetBox + Terraform is not a matter of taste — it's a fitment problem. Here's how to map requirements to the right stack.
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