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Extracting public IP data from AWS can be painful and time consuming. This NQE makes it easy to identify public IPs across all accounts and regions and can be customized for other cloud providers. OverviewStarting in February 2024, AWS began charging for public IP addresses to incentivize the migration to IPv6 due to the depletion of IPv4 space. Managing these costs can be challenging, especially with AWS’s VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) which only works across a single account and incurs additional charges. Our NQE provides a comprehensive view across accounts and regions without extra costs, simplifying IP management. This functionality also extends to other cloud platforms like Azure and GCP, offering a unified solution for IP management.

OverviewSecurity Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) are critical for ensuring that organizational devices accessing the Department of Defense Information Networks (DODIN) meet stringent security requirements. The NQE STIG compliance check makes it easier to validate that device configurations are compliant with STIG standards and verify those configurations remain compliant with each snapshot. STIG compliance involves a comprehensive list of requirements ensuring proper configuration of authentication, logging, network time protocol (NTP), and management plane. These requirements can vary significantly depending on the device type and vendor, with different configurations needed for everything from backbone routers and campus layer switches, to VPN concentrators. Given the complexity and variety of these requirements, maintaining compliance can be a daunting task. This NQE solution provid

Managing wide area networks (WANs) efficiently is paramount for businesses. This Network Query Engine (NQE) serves as a critical tool, offering visibility into WAN circuits by integrating external data sources from service providers.OverviewIn today's digital landscape, businesses rely on wide area networks (WANs) to connect different parts of their operations. A common challenge is the lack of visibility into all WAN circuits, leading to inefficiencies and unnecessary costs. That's where this Network Query Engine (NQE) steps in, providing a solution that allows customers to use external data sour

Is there any additional documentation as to what needs to be included in any NQE query that is used to dynamically create l3vpn synthetic devices ?

If you've ever wished Demo Tuesdays were longer OR if you've always wondered what @Mike looks like in sequins-- this is the stream you've been waiting for.  Mike takes our Cisco Live Demo Theater audience through a full 30 minutes of Forward Enterprise product demonstration live in Las Vegas. 

How can i collect below information from Forward Network via API for Network devices. ?• IP address,• MAC address• Interface details• Device Name• Subnet details1.Which API should be used to get the above information? In the documentation, I see an API to get           networks/ Network collection/ devices  ;2.Is there a single API call that can pull the above information, or are there multiple API calls?3.If it's one API call, what's the Max pagination limit?4.Can you please provide a Sample API  or a Postman export to make an API call.

How can i collect NQE Query Data from Forward Network to Power BI Easily,

Hi All,Need to fetch interface alias details of Fortinet firewalls from NQE query. Please help me to build the logic.

Hi Team,I want to add only admin status up interfaces condition, CDP LLDP neighbor info in below query, please help me on this.Extra question- 1. any method to shirk the results to only getting WAN interfaces any idea on this.2. want to add one more column to fetch circuit id details from Interface or Interface description.NQE Query- pattern_interfaces = ["*WAN *"];testPatterns(s, p) = max (foreach pattern in pselect matches(toLowerCase(s), toLowerCase(pattern)));foreach device in network.devicesforeach interface in device.interfaceslet platform = device.platformlet ethernet = interface.ethernetwhere isPresent(interface.description)where testPatterns(interface.description, pattern_interfaces)select {  test: testPatterns(interface.description, pattern_interfaces),  deviceName: device.name,  Location: device.locationName,  Tags: device.tagNames,

I want to create a custom interface description nqe query in Forward Networks.Requirement is to getting only WAN, INT interfaces information through the query. I have used below logic through it i am not getting the results. Please help me out. foreach device in network.devicesforeach interface in device.interfaceslet platform = device.platformwhere interface.description=="WAN"select {  deviceName: device.name,  Location: device.locationName,   Tags: device.tagNames,  Vendor: platform.vendor,  Model: platform.model,  interfaceName: interface.name,  description: interface.description,operStatus: interface.operStatus,adminStatus: interface.adminStatus,cdpNeighborsCount: length(interface.cdp.neighbors),  lldpNeighborsCount: length(interface.lldp.neighbors) } 

Sorry about the lack of punctuation in the title, I can’t edit after ;-)So I don’t know if this is possible, but maybe someone has an idea.The script below provides the following output:OutputThe goal of the script is to figure out how ‘over provisioned’ we are on a switch. i.e. how many ports have never passed a packet. This is in order to size environments better for future refreshes.So the output provides all the necessary info, but I’m not sure how to get a row to tell me “% Utililized”This would be the total count of the ports in use (last column) divided into the the number of ports that specific switch, that show “0” across the board, and I’ll just take 1 zero and assume the rest are zeros (sometimes they are not, but this is just an estimate anyway). Any idea

Apologies - This isn’t a question, and I can’t change it to a conversation -With recent changes in our NAC servers, we needed to check that our ‘ip helper-addresses’ were consistent to our regional standards. This is something we usually did with Python, but here’s a simple script to grab the helpers on each of the interfaces.  I got the script working, but had some formatting issues, and thankfully a colleague was able to use some logic to format (@danny,Ramirez) via this statement:let ips = (foreach ip in ServerIP where match.data.IntName == ip.data.IntName select distinct toString(ip.data.helper))Ideally, we would would define the NAC servers per region, and export them as a check, but I haven’t gotten there yet ;-)pattern = ```interface {IntName:string} ip helper-address {helper:ipv4Address}```;foreach device in network.devices// Feel free to trim the scope with a where// where "

Using the same logic in my previous post to grab ip helper addresses, I was thinking what else could I re-use this kind of script to grab, and it was for our OSPF configuration. If you are configuring OSPF type/timers/intervals/cost on interfaces, you can use this script to grab the values on each interface. This will make it easy to set up a violation check for anyone that wants. What would be ideal is if I could group the interfaces per devicehost-XYZ.  intf1:  Type: DeadInterval: HelloInterval: Load : Cost                    intf2:  Type: DeadInterval: HelloInterval: Load : Cost                    intf3:  Type: DeadInterval: HelloInterval: Load : Costhost-ABC.  intf1:  Type: DeadInterval: HelloInterval: Load : Cost                    intf2:  Type: DeadInterval: HelloInterval: Load : Cost                    intf3:  Type: DeadInterval: HelloInterval: Load : Cost 

when going through devices with interface descriptions, for exampledescription “to site x interface gi0/0”;description “to site y interfaace gi0/1”:block pattern is description {desc:string}Since it is a description with multiple words and space delimited, is there a way to get the entire description no matter how many words there are?  As the above would only get the first word.similar to the way I would use grep for example:grep '^description' ciscoconfig.txtor if I wanted specific columns or text within lines beginning with description, I would grep and use awk like belowgrep '^description' ciscoconfig.txt | awk '{print $2}'grep '^description' ciscoconfig.txt | awk '{print $2 $4}'grep '^description' ciscoconfig.txt | awk '{print $4 $2}'Etc.can anybody provide an NQE Example, Thanks

The API can be used to perform most functions available in the GUI. To perform complex queries of data in the API, it is necessary to insert an NQE query into the API call, or reference an existing NQE query in the Repository.In this example, we first create an NQE query in the Org Repository called list-interfaces. This NQE query will iterate through each device, interface, and sub-interface and list the IP addresses and MAC addresses for each interface.foreach device in network.devicesforeach interface in device.interfacesforeach subinterface in interface.subinterfaceslet ipv4 = subinterface.ipv4foreach address in ipv4.addressesselect { deviceName: device.name, interfaceName: interface.name, subinterfaceName: subinterface.name, ip: ipSubnet(address.ip, address.prefixLength), macAddress: interface.ethernet.macAddress}The output of

Using NQE to do Configurations Compliance checks require having the proper structure for the searched text pattern.Ex: this will not match eventhough that line exists within the configurations, but it’s not in the root levelPATTERN=```set admintimeout 10```;So, to match this line we have to provide the proper structure, or recusively add an extra level until a match is foundSo, modifing that example to one of the below patterns should workPATTERN1=```config system global set admintimeout 10```;PATTERN2=```{(string)+} set admintimeout 10```;So, in this example it was only 1 level down, so it’s straight forward to fix.But having to work with different patterns with different nesting levels the below code can be used to automatically modify the provided pattern and recursively search all the different le

One of my colleagues told me that some of our devices had licence issues.output from show licence usage shows the issue easily, so custom command is the way to go SOMEDEVICE# show license usageFeature                      Ins  Lic   Status Expiry Date Comments                                 Count--------------------------------------------------------------------------------….NXOS_ESSENTIALS_M4            No    -   Unused             -   -FC_PORT_ACTIVATION_PKG        No    0   Unused             -LAN_ENTERPRISE_SERVICES_PKG   No    -   In use             Honor Start 70D 15H-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The key part is to extract the features for the device, and check that the No is present, with In Use also present.This is done via the foll

I like to give my team little challenges to exercise their NQE skills. Why don’t you play along this weekend and let’s see all the different ways you can accomplish this goal. Tune in to see some creative ways to solve the FizzBuzz challenge with NQEFizzBuzzThe task is to write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100, but with a twist:For multiples of three, print "Fizz" instead of the number. For multiples of five, print "Buzz" instead of the number. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five, print "FizzBuzz" instead of the number.

One of the painful parts of trying to audit configurations, is accounting for the variations in the configuration that differ based on Vendor/Model/OS etc… Additionally, accounting for ‘old’ configurations/mis-configuration across these variations adds an extra (sometimes silent, sometimes not) “WTF” as one attempts to isolate the problems.With initial input from Arica , I wound up writing 2 scripts to find the ‘new’ configuration and one to find the old, then ‘xlookup-ed’ the differences in excel. Not to fun, but it was effective enough.  Then I figured, how hard could it be to combine them? It was harder than I though, so I created the shell, and then asked for some help from a colleague (thanks Ahmed).@AricaFN@AhmedKhedr The result of the script produces an easily scanned results for the problems.Model ---- DeviceName ---- GoodConfig --- BadConfig

For the networks I work on there are a lot of different servers, mainly due to environmental conditions such as NAT that are used for the basic management of the devices. This include authentication, snmp-traps, ntp, syslog and so on.The following code allows us to see at a glance all the unique servers ip addresses, along with a reference to each device being used.It’s very easy to list this as individual records, but sometimes it’s nice to consolidate this to show the number of servers, and how many devices are using them. One such use case, may be when moving device from old/demising servers to new servers.This script is a skeleton for Tacacs, it does not deal with the various different command syntax across the various vendors and is just shown as an example. In this case for Cisco.Firstly a function to get the information from each device, namely the authentication server and the device name.getTacacsDeviceE

Hello,With the actual version of NQE not providing direct way to initialise an Empty list ex:let empty_list = []orempty_list = [] A workaround for this is to construct the creation of that list and providing a value with the same data type you need// an empty List<String>FALLBACK =foreach x in [""]where x != ""select x; // an empty list of NumbersFALLBACK_NUMBERS=foreach x in [0]where x != 0select x; Taking this logic further we can create a function that provides us an empty list of whatever generic type. by taking a default value of that type as an input, then comparing against that value The below block contains the full PoC code// an empty List<String>FALLBACK =foreach x in [""]where x != ""

Before we head off into the weekend I was hoping to ask the community what their stance is on schema based network configuration interfaces like NetConf and OpenConfig GNMI. Question 1: Do you currently or plan to use NetConf and/or GNMI to manage policy across your network? Do you leverage this in your automation pipeline? If so, do you find sufficient vendor support?Question 2: If you do leverage NetConf/GNMI for configuration data, do you still want to inspect the policies via CLI?Thanks for your insights.

As part of doing configuration audits for our NX-OS devices, I needed a check to see if two conditions were met in a configuration to check compliance.If both conditions were present → GoodIf one condition was met and the other wasn’t → BADElse if → Both conditions were not present → Also good.This is relatively simple with a single condition, but adding another variable, kind of stumped me. Credit to Glen Turner @FN for solving the logic puzzle on this.The example below is for OSPF enabled and SNMP traps for OSPF is enabled. This logic can be used for many other two condition checks such as //VarsPatternNetFlow = ```feature netflow```;PatternNetFlow_Config = ```flow timeout active 60```;//FunctionsCheckPattern(config , pattern) = !hasBlockMatch(config, pattern);&& //VarsPatternBFD = ```feature bfd

On May 21st we have shown the integration between Forward and NetBox in a joint webinar. UPDATE: The webinar recording is now available on YouTube:https://youtu.be/TSX14uke1NE.The description includes a link to the webinar slides and the GitHub repository. The integration is part of the NetBox’s Network Automation Architecture framework where Forward provides the Observability and Assurance piece, as shown in the picture below:NetBox Network Automation Architecture The first use case is

I have a problem where the two lines of this module output are not the same.  How can I put in essentially null place holders so that they resultant patterns are the "same"?example outputNotice that module 2 does not have Fw or Sw.Mod MAC addresses Hw Fw Sw Status 1 a03d.6f81.0740 to a03d.6f81.074f 1.1 15.0(1r)SG12 03.07.03.E Ok 2 b0aa.777d.d010 to b0aa.777d.d017 1.0 Ok  I was trying to use these two patterns and tried to put in placeholds of Fw and Sw at the end of "pattern03".  But the NQE does not like this.pattern02 = ```Mod MAC addresses {modNum:number} {string} to {string} {hwVer:string} {fwVer:string} {swVer:string} {modStatus:string}```;pattern03 = ```Mod MAC addresses {modNum:number} {string} to {string}