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Your Network Inventory Is Lying to You
And change management is paying the price. How network digital twins and NetBox together can close the gap between what you think your network looks like and what it actually is.
POWER Magazine: The Defense Production Act Just Made Your Grid Inventory a National Security Issue
Grid modernization starts with knowing what you have: why infrastructure visibility and automation are becoming essential for utility operators.
Building an Automation Framework
Discover the transformative potential of automation with our comprehensive Automation Framework. By integrating industry-leading tools like NetBox and Ansible, we streamline operations, enhance cross-functional collaboration and drive innovation. This framework empowers organizations to achieve strategic goals, optimize AI integration and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Detecting and Responding to Device Health Score Degradation
Learners will build a network assurance workflow that connects live device health data from Cisco Catalyst Center with the NetBox source of truth. The playbook queries device health scores, evaluates them against a configurable threshold, identifies degraded devices, and writes the resulting health status back into NetBox for operational visibility.
Automating Network Assurance with NetBox Labs and Cisco Catalyst Center
Discover how to revolutionize network assurance through automation with NetBox Labs and Cisco Catalyst Center. This lab empowers participants to transform manual processes into scalable practices, leveraging dynamic inventory and Ansible workflows for enhanced efficiency and consistency. Embrace a source-of-truth-driven approach to streamline operations and align automation with network intent.
Automating Network Inventory and Assurance with NetBox and Catalyst Center
This Learning Path shows you how to build a source-of-truth-driven automation solution with Cisco Catalyst Center, NetBox, and Ansible. You'll sync live inventory into NetBox using Orb Agent and Diode, drive Ansible playbooks off a NetBox dynamic inventory, and close the loop by writing live device health scores back into NetBox.
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Data-driven Automation with Netbox
In this hands-on lab, learners will explore how to build and configure a data-driven automation workflow using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox. The lab guides users through practical exercises that demonstrate how real-time source of truth changes can trigger automated configuration. Participants will configure NetBox event rules and webhooks to emit actionable events, set up Event-Driven Ansible event streams to receive and process those events, and create rulebook activations that respond intelligently. By the end of the lab, learners will have a working solution that tightly integrates their source of truth with automation workflows—enabling scalable, responsive infrastructure management.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week (4/3)
For the week ending April 3, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel including Intel, Mistral AI, Treeline and NetBox Labs as well as a shout-out to the winner of CRN's 2026 Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs.
Network Automation with Nokia and Red Hat OpenShift
Nokia's Event Driven Automation (EDA) is a cloud-native platform that leverages data center fabric automation and AI Operations to simplify the management of network layers across physical switching, hypervisors and infrastructure management. By using an intent-based approach for network lifecycle management, EDA supports multiple vendors and integrates with solutions such as Red Hat OpenShift and Netbox Labs.
NetBox Labs and World Wide Technology Enter Strategic Partnership to Support Enterprise-Scale Network and Infrastructure Modernization
The partnership brings NetBox Labs' platform into WWT's enterprise offerings to power automation, governance, and large-scale infrastructure transformation
Netbox's Copilot Goes GA As Upstart Reveals Partnership With WWT
Increasingly channel-friendly NetBox has made its interactive AI agent embedded directly into the NetBox platform generally available. At the same time, the company unveiled a strategic partnership with World Wide Technology as NetBox invests heavily in the channel in 2026
NetBox Labs announces GA of NetBox Copilot to enhance IT automation
WWT partnership accelerates enterprise adoption of NetBox for network and infrastructure automation
Using NetBox Custom Objects
NetBox's custom objects enable tailored data modeling. As organizations seek comprehensive data integration, custom objects empower deployments by embracing the ability to model unique environments, driving innovation and standardization in infrastructure automation. Explore how custom objects can transform your network management strategy.
Before Automation: A Reality Check on IT Fundamentals
Many organizations aspire to enabling infrastructure automation, GitOps and self-healing systems but struggle with IT fundamentals like network stability, asset management, observability and identity access. Without a strong foundation, automation efforts will struggle. We'll explore the key fundamentals that organizations must have before embarking on their automation journey as well as some common pitfalls usually encountered.
Years of Workshops: Industry Trends in Infrastructure Automation
An examination of data from the Infrastructure Automation Envisioning Workshop that WWT has conducted since 2022. We examine current challenges and trends we see.
Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth
The Infrastructure Automation Source of Truth learning path is designed to teach infrastructure engineers the critical concepts of managing data for their automation. This learning path will help you understand what a Source of Truth is and what considerations you account for when building your Source of Truth.
Following the Source of Truth overview, you will dive into two specific Source of Truth solutions: Text File-based Source of Truth and NetBox as a Source of Truth.
In the Text File SoT section, you will learn how to use a files-based source of truth in your automation effectively. This module will guide you through different methods of managing and consuming text files as a source of automation data.
The NetBox module is designed to teach you how to interface with NetBox as a source of truth for variable data and inventory.
The hands-on labs for file-based and NetBox SoT are packed with guided challenges to deliver practical practice for the concepts covered.