Use the Python Netmiko module to automate switches, routers and firewalls from multiple vendors.

I frequently find myself in the position of confronting "hostile" networks. By hostile, I mean that there is no existing documentation, or if it does exist, it is hopelessly out of date or being hidden deliberately. With that in mind, in this article, I describe the tools I've found useful to recover control, audit, document and automate these networks. Note that I'm not going to try to document any of the tools completely here. I mainly want to give you enough real-world examples to prove how much time and effort you could save with these tools, and I hope this article motivates you to explore the official documentation and example code.