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Intro In this post I want to show how I’ve built an AI agent which is able to troubleshoot a network issue. I’d like to include all implementation details; hence, anyone can reproduce it or build his own agent. I do not claim that this is the only right approach, but it is my way… The use case The use case is very simple: I want an AI agent that can find an artificially injected error in a working Cisco lab. In practice, that means I break one thing, and the agent has to reason its way back to the root cause by gathering evidence from the network. ...

How to build Cisco CLI based MCP server from scratch with local model

Step-by-step setup of a local LLM with a simple example

How to quickly spin up a short-lived DHCP server in a container

A short note on getting Cisco IOS XRd running in Containerlab and the one detail I missed the first time.

How to automate a fresh new AWS server using Terraform and Python, triggered directly from SecureCRT

How to publish multiple branches inside one repository using GitHub Pages

Cheatsheet for the most common network configurations on my 4 favourite distros: Alpine, Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky

How to spin up new VM in vSphere from ISO image without hassling with vCenter GUI

LAB notes